This article reviews the idea that the bacterial spore is a small cell, formed by an asymmetric cell division and enveloped by the larger sister cell. Both processes seem to be morphological ...
Since the spectacular demonstration of suppression of nonsense mutations and its application to T4 development (Epstein et al., 1963), means to express genes conditionally to permit observation of the ...
Copy number variation through gene or chromosome amplification provides a route for rapid phenotypic variation and supports the long-term evolution of gene functions. Although the evolutionary ...