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Growth of the Bacterial Cell

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Cell growth and division, and the way in which chromosome segregation is coordinated with these events, are discussed in terms of a model based on the concept of a unit cell—the smallest viable bacterium.

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    W. D. DONACHIE & K. J. BEGG

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DONACHIE, W., BEGG, K. Growth of the Bacterial Cell. Nature 227, 1220–1224 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2271220a0

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