Sizing up the bacterial cell cycle

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 606 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.79

Authors: Lisa Willis & Kerwyn Casey Huang
It is remarkable how robustly a bacterial species can maintain its preferred size. This capacity is intimately related to control of the cell cycle: cell size and growth rate determine the duration of the cell cycle, which must accommodate the initiation and completion of DNA

Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - August 14, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Lisa Willis Kerwyn Casey Huang Tags: Review Source Type: research