Multiple fission in Corynebacterium matruchotii (VIDEO)

Marine Biological Laboratory

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The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii splitting into multiple cells at once, a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria living in human dental plaque. Credit: Scott Chimileski, MBL. See Chimileski et al (2024), PNAS.

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Scott Chimileski, Marine Biological Laboratory. See Chimileski et al (2024), PNAS.

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