title: Bacterial development: evidence for very short umbilical cords.
abstract: Higher eukaryotes have channels, such as gap junctions and plasmodesmata, that allow intercellular communication. Recent studies on endospore formation in Bacillus subtilis suggest that an analogous structure may exist in prokaryotes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. kroos@msu.edu
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kroos
mesh_terms: D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D017629:Gap Junctions / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D012808:Sigma Factor / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D012808:Sigma Factor