Heterocyst differentiation that occurs in some filamentous cyanobacteria, such as Anabaena
sp. PCC 7120, provides a unique model for prokaryotic developmental biology. Heterocyst …

There are several instances of cellular differentiation in prokaryotes, including the formation
of spores in Bacillus, the fruiting bodies of Myxococcus, and the stalked cells of Caulobacter …

This handbook acquaints readers with the exciting developments in various areas of
cyanobacterial research in the backdrop of the publication of complete genome sequence of …

The one-dimensional multicellular cyanobacterium, Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, exhibits a
simple topology consisting of two types of cells under the nitrogen-depleted conditions …

Cyanobacteria forming one-dimensional filaments are paradigmatic model organisms of the
transition between unicellular and multicellular living forms. Under nitrogen-limiting …

Cyanobacteria are a diverse bacterial phylum whose members possess a high degree of
ultrastructural organization and unique gene regulatory mechanisms. Unraveling this …

Under nitrogen deprivation, filaments of the cyanobacterium Anabaena undergo a process
of development, resulting in a one-dimensional pattern of nitrogen-fixing heterocysts …

The fluorescence spectrum at 298 and 40 K and the absorption spectrum at 298 K of each
cell of the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. was measured by single-cell confocal …

Circadian clock arrays in multicellular filaments of the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium
Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 display remarkable spatio-temporal coherence under …

Heterocyst is a nitrogen-fixing cell differentiated from a cell for oxygen-evolving
photosynthesis (vegetative cell) in some filamentous cyanobacteria when fixed nitrogen (eg …