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Nucleoid morphologies of addA5 addB72, recH342, and ΔrecO cells. Exponentially growing cells were fixed, stained with DAPI, and analyzed by fluorescence microscopy to visualize the nucleoids. White arrows point to diffuse and linked nucleoids.