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Multicellular Development in the Myxobacteria Myxococcus xanthus and Stigmetalla aurantiaca

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The myxobacteria are a group of Gram-type negative soil-dwelling organisms which possess many unusual features including gliding motility, which allows cell movement only on surfaces, the largest prokaryotic genome, antibiotic production rivaled only by the actinomycetes, and a number of eukaryotic-like proteins including serine-threonine protein kinases and reverse transcriptase. The most unique feature of the myxobacteria, however,is their ability to construct multicellula fruiting bodies under nutritional stress (Fig. 1).

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  1. MPI für Molekulare Genetik, Ihnestraße 73, D-14195, Berlin, Germany

    Vincenzo E. A. Russo

  2. Leeds Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Agriculture, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, Great Britain

    David J. Cove

  3. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80302, CO, USA

    Lois G. Edgar

  4. Whitehead Institute, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, 02141, MA, USA

    Rudolf Jaenisch

  5. MPI für Züchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, Köln, D-50829, Germany

    Francesco Salamini

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Crawford, E.W., Shimkets, L.J. (1999). Multicellular Development in the Myxobacteria Myxococcus xanthus and Stigmetalla aurantiaca . In: Russo, V.E.A., Cove, D.J., Edgar, L.G., Jaenisch, R., Salamini, F. (eds) Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59828-9_3

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