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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2015 Aug 5;427(23):3709–3721. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.07.022

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Cell recognition and fruiting body development in myxobacteria. A) A schematic model of fruiting body formation by M. xanthus cells (yellow). The natural soil environment of myxobacteria contains diverse microbial communities (depicted by cells of different shapes and colors, left). Upon starvation, M. xanthus cells recognize kin and migrate into aggregates. The aggregates increase in size and form a haystack-shaped fruiting body, within which cells sporulate (depicted by circles). B) Micrograph of Chondromyces crocatus fruiting body [20] (courtesy of Hans Reichenbach).