title: Spore No More: Quality Control during Bacterial Development.
abstract: In this issue of Developmental Cell, Tan et al. (2015) describe an elegant mechanism functioning during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Their findings suggest that quality control purges unfit spores via programmed cell death, providing further insight into the utility of this phenomenon in unicellular organisms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A8 ON, Canada. Electronic address: marc.meneghini@utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: Marc D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Meneghini
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000254:growth & development*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002450:Cell Communication; D013171:Spores, Bacterial / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins