Unlike most bacteria, Caulobacterales bacteria divide asymmetrically when they reproduce, which creates two cells that look different from each other (top part of the illustration). However, the ...

But when antibiotics are ineffective, some rod-like bacteria, such as E. coli, elongate as a stress response, lengthening without reproducing. These long E. coli cells can swim their way into tubes, ...

The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii splitting into multiple cells at once, a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria ...

How can bacteria that forage on organic particles survive in vast ocean regions where such particles are extremely sparse? A ...