Pleomorphic Variants of (syn. ) Express Evolutionary Distinct Transcriptomes.

(syn. ) is a spirochete bacterium that causes tick-borne Lyme disease. Along its lifecycle develops several pleomorphic forms with unclear biological and medical relevance.

A novel time-lapse imaging method for studying developing bacterial biofilms.

In nature, bacteria prevailingly reside in the form of biofilms. These elaborately organized surface-bound assemblages of bacterial cells show numerous features of multicellular organization. We recently showed that biofilm growth is a true developmental process, which resembles developmental processes in multicellular eukaryotes.