• DOI:10.1038/nrmicro3178
Corpus ID: 20154495

Bacterial solutions to multicellularity: a tale of biofilms, filaments and fruiting bodies

@article{Claessen2014BacterialST,
  title={Bacterial solutions to multicellularity: a tale of biofilms, filaments and fruiting bodies},
  author={D. Claessen and D. Rozen and O. Kuipers and L. S{\o}gaard-Andersen and G. V. Wezel},
  journal={Nature Reviews Microbiology},
  year={2014},
  volume={12},
  pages={115-124}
}

D. Claessen, D. Rozen, +2 authors G. V. Wezel

Published 2014

Biology, Medicine

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Although bacteria frequently live as unicellular organisms, many spend at least part of their lives in complex communities, and some have adopted truly multicellular lifestyles and have abandoned unicellular growth. These transitions to multicellularity have occurred independently several times for various ecological reasons, resulting in a broad range of phenotypes. In this Review, we discuss the strategies that are used by bacteria to form and grow in multicellular structures that have… CONTINUE READING

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