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Schematic of the stochastic irreversible switching of normal bacterial cell (blue) to elongating bacterial cells (red). A normal cell can either divide into two cells with probability α or switch to an elongating phenotype with a probability β. Once a bacterial cell’s fate changes to elongating cell type, it just grows without dividing.
