The Selective Value of Bacterial Shape

By K. Young. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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Endocytosis and exocytosis of nanoparticles in mammalian cells (2014, background): “5 μm.(16) The phagocytosis pathway is actin-dependent and restricted to professional phagocytes, such as macrophages, dendritic cells, and neutrophils.”
Modelling bacterial behaviour close to a no-slip plane boundary: the influence of bacterial geometry (2010, background): “While this may have some relevance, particularly in the design of artificial microswimmers, there are a host of other factors that would affect biological fitness of bacteria in nature (Young 2006).”
Rhizosphere fauna: the functional and structural diversity of intimate interactions of soil fauna with plant roots (2009, positive): “In general, size-selection has been shown to play an important role for predation on bacteria, resulting in distinct shifts in the size and morphology of grazed suspended planktonic cells (Pernthaler 2005; Young 2006).”
Cyanobacterial evolution during the Precambrian (2016, background): “…further indicate that an ancient transition to multicellularity in cyanobacteria possibly provided adaptive advantages (Schirrmeister et al. 2015), such as motility within bacterial mats to position themselves optimally (Stal 1995), or improved surface attachment during mat formation (Young 2006).”
The basics of bio-flocs technology: The added value for aquaculture (2008, background): “By organizing themselves into aggregates, cells may become less susceptible to predation by protozoa (Young, 2006).”
Bacteria in Snow and Glacier Ice (2008, background): “In this connection, a recent comprehensive review (Young 2006) discusses the selective value of bacterial shape and comes to the conclusion that cell morphology is a meaningful selectable trait that can even be charted in evolutionary scale.”
Attachment efficiency of gold nanoparticles by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains governed by surface charges (2019, background): “In general, there are three main morphological types of bacterial cells that can be distinguished: spheres (cocci), rods (bacilli), and spirals (spirilla) (Young 2006).”
Physical approaches to biomaterial design (2009, background): “For example, bacteria come in a broad range of unique shapes including rods, spirals and ellipsoid”
Molecular and morphological methods for identifying plankton: what makes a successful marriage? (2009, background): “Although size and shape may be important factors in prokaryote evolution (Young, 2006), bacterioplankton have almost no morphology that is discernible by transmitted light or fluorescence microscopy.”
Morphological plasticity as a bacterial survival strategy (2008, background): “Uniformity of cell shape and size The typical size and shape of bacterial cells is dependent on numerous variables that are unique to the particular environments that are associated with the lifestyle of each species (reviewed in ref”
From the regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis to bacterial growth and morphology (2011, neutral): “jpg"/> Bacteria come in a range of shapes (such as cocci and rods), and their internal volume ranges from ∼10 −2 to ∼10 6 μm 3 (Ref”