Lingering Puzzles about Myxobacteria
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T he myxobacteria are social and capable of constructing intricate macroscopic structures called fruiting bodies. First recognized as bacteria in 1892 by the cryptogamic botanist Roland Thaxter, these exotic anomalies have proved challenging to microbiologists. Even so, we now know a great deal about the nutrition, life cycle, growth physiology, intermediary metabolism, structural chemistry, genetics, and regulatory pathways of one of the myxobacteria, Myxococcus xanthus. Despite such progress, however, the myxobacteria leave us with several outstanding puzzles, including:
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