Bacteria Pushes Button for Tubeworm Metamorphosis (8 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Bacteria Pushes Button for Tubeworm Metamorphosis (8 of 9)

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Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea bacterial colonies on an agar plate are shown. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 9 Jan., 2014, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Nicholas J. Shikuma at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Marine Tubeworm Metamorphosis Induced by Arrays of Bacterial Phage Tail-Like Structures."

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[Image courtesy of Nicholas Shikuma]

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