A dividing cell (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

A dividing cell

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A dividing bacterial cell under the fluorescence microscope. The constriction in the middle where the cell divides is clearly visible. The cell is coloured green, the genomes blue

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Jan Brüwer/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

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