Bacterial solutions to multicellularity: a tale of biofilms, filaments and fruiting bodies

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Nature Reviews Microbiology

• Publication date

  2014-01-02

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nrmicro3178PMID 24384602
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