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- Title
Cannibalism and fratricide: mechanisms and raisons d'être.
- Authors
Claverys, Jean-Pierre; Håvarstein, Leiv S.
- Abstract
Cannibalism and fratricide refer to the killing of genetically identical cells (siblings) that was recently documented in two Gram-positive species, Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae, respectively. Cannibalism occurs during the early stages of sporulation in B. subtilis, whereas fratricide occurs in S. pneumoniae during natural genetic transformation. Here, we compare and contrast these two phenomena and discuss whether these processes are fundamentally different from the more traditional 'chemical warfare' among bacteria.
- Subjects
FRATRICIDE; CANNIBALISM; STREPTOCOCCUS pneumoniae; BACILLUS subtilis; CYTOGENETICS; GENETIC transformation; BACTERIAL genetics
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2007, Vol 5, Issue 3, p219
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro1613