sporulation
Americannoun
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These results demonstrate that commensal spore-formers and C. difficile share a core set of sporulation genes that confer a highly resistant phenotype that is associated with environmental spread between humans.
From Nature ● May 3, 2016
Genes not previously associated with sporulation are also present and these have putative roles as heat shock, membrane-associated proteins and DNA-polymerase-associated proteins.
From Nature ● May 3, 2016
We hypothesized that sporulation is an unappreciated basic phenotype of the human intestinal microbiota that may have a profound impact on microbiota persistence and spread between humans.
From Nature ● May 3, 2016
Most species of diatoms reproduce asexually, although some instances of sexual reproduction and sporulation also exist.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
After a time they make their way into other red blood-corpuscles, develop into new malarial amoeboid parasites, and repeat the growth and sporulation.
From The Story of Germ Life by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)
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