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Prokaryotic Life Cycles

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1 Introduction

Modern prokaryotic biology has focused much of its attention on understanding the nature and regulation of bacterial growth. This reflects Francois Jacob's memorable rhetorical question, “A bacterium, an amoeba...what destiny can they dream of other than forming two bacteria, two amoebae...?” (Jacob, 1973). It has been an unstated assumption that the primary approach to fulfilling this destiny is to optimize growth, exemplified by the remarkable efficiency and adaptability of the growth of enteric bacteria, pseudomonads, and other prokaryotes. However, the ability of many bacteria to go through a life cycle is another way (more common than is recognized) that prokaryotes increase the likelihood that one bacterium will eventually become two. It is the goal of this chapter to describe some typical life cycles found among the bacteria.

Prokaryotic life cycles can be divided into three general groups: 1) there are simple life cycles, during which the cells alternate between...

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

    Martin Dworkin Professor Dr. (Editor-in-Chief) (Editor-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, D039, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

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  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

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Dworkin, M. (2006). Prokaryotic Life Cycles. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30742-7_6

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