Sighting the alien within: a new look at Bdellovibrio

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Alan J Wolfe. J Bacteriol. 2010 Dec.

. 2010 Dec;192(24):6327-8.

doi: 10.1128/JB.01174-10. Epub 2010 Oct 15.

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Medical School, Maywood, Illinois 60153, USA. awolfe@lumc.edu

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Shadowing the actions of a predator: backlit fluorescent microscopy reveals synchronous nonbinary septation of predatory Bdellovibrio inside prey and exit through discrete bdelloplast pores.
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