Life, death, differentiation, and the multicellularity of bacteria.

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Published in PLoS Genet on March 13, 2009

Authors

Susan M Rosenberg1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America. smr@bcm.edu

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