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Science 19 January 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5247, p. 291
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5247.291
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Research News

Wade Roush

In the careful dance of a bacterial cell's life, particular movements, such as cell division or the development of particular cell structures, occur only after previous steps are completed. But scientists haven't been able to find a master choreographer--until now. In an aquatic bacterium, researchers report finding a gene whose product coordinates the formation of a propellerlike flagellum with several other critical events, including DNA replication.




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