Nature Communications (Aug 2022)
Evolution of longitudinal division in multicellular bacteria of the Neisseriaceae family
- Sammy Nyongesa,
- Philipp M. Weber,
- Ève Bernet,
- Francisco Pulido,
- Cecilia Nieves,
- Marta Nieckarz,
- Marie Delaby,
- Tobias Viehboeck,
- Nicole Krause,
- Alex Rivera-Millot,
- Arnaldo Nakamura,
- Norbert O. E. Vischer,
- Michael vanNieuwenhze,
- Yves V. Brun,
- Felipe Cava,
- Silvia Bulgheresi,
- Frédéric J. Veyrier
Affiliations
- Sammy Nyongesa
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution
- Philipp M. Weber
- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Environmental Cell Biology Group, University of Vienna
- Ève Bernet
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution
- Francisco Pulido
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution
- Cecilia Nieves
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution
- Marta Nieckarz
- Department of Molecular Biology and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University
- Marie Delaby
- Département de microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie, Université de Montréal
- Tobias Viehboeck
- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Environmental Cell Biology Group, University of Vienna
- Nicole Krause
- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Environmental Cell Biology Group, University of Vienna
- Alex Rivera-Millot
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution
- Arnaldo Nakamura
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution
- Norbert O. E. Vischer
- Bacterial Cell Biology & Physiology, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam
- Michael vanNieuwenhze
- Indiana University
- Yves V. Brun
- Département de microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie, Université de Montréal
- Felipe Cava
- Department of Molecular Biology and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University
- Silvia Bulgheresi
- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Environmental Cell Biology Group, University of Vienna
- Frédéric J. Veyrier
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32260-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 18
Abstract
Rod-shaped bacteria typically elongate and divide by transverse fission, but a few species are known to divide longitudinally. Here, the authors use genomic, phylogenetic and microscopy techniques to shed light on the evolution of cell shape, multicellularity and division mode within the family Neisseriaceae.
