George A Schaible

Jul 11, 2024 | journals.plos.org | George A Schaible |Zackary J. Jay |John B. Cliff |Frederik Schulz

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewedResearch Article Citation: Schaible GA, Jay ZJ, Cliff J, Schulz F, Gauvin C, Goudeau D, et al. (2024) Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells. PLoS Biol 22(7): e3002638.

Nov 27, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Zackary J. Jay |John B. Cliff |Frederik Schulz |George A Schaible

AbstractConsortia of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) are currently the only known example of bacteria without a unicellular stage in their life cycle. Because of their recalcitrance to cultivation, most previous studies of MMB have been limited to microscopic observations. To study the biology of these unique organisms in more detail, we use multiple culture-independent approaches to analyze the genomics and physiology of MMB consortia at single cell resolution.