REAGENT or RESOURCE	SOURCE	IDENTIFIER
Bacterial and virus strains
Bacillus subtilis PY79	Gift from Lucy Shapiro	Wild type
Caulobacter crescentus NA1000 (CB15N)	Gift from Lucy Shapiro	Wild type
Caulobacter crescentus SM1309 (NA1000 PvanA::fabH ΔfabH ΔspoT)	Stott et al. 2015	Mutant
Escherichia coli MG1655 (F- λ-rph-1)	Gift from Lucy Shapiro	Wild type
Critical commercial assays
Molecular Probes LIVE/DEAD BacLight Bacterial Viability Kit	Fisher Scientific	Cat#L13152
Biotium Viability/Cytoxicity Assay Kit for Bacteria Live & Dead Cells	Fisher Scientific	Cat#NC1643156
Chemicals, peptides, and recombinant proteins
Paraformaldehyde, 16%	Fisher Scientific	Cat#18505; CAS:50-00-0
Sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous	Fisher Scientific	Cat#S379-212; CAS:7558-79-4
Agarose	Fisher Scientific	Cat#BP160-100; CAS:9012-36-6
Isopropanol	Fisher Scientific	Cat#A417-1; CAS:67-63-0
Vanillic acid	Sigma-Aldrich	Cat#94770; CAS:121-34-6
Other
Plain Microscope Slides Precleaned	Fisher Scientific	Cat#12-550-A3
Premium Cover Glass	Fisher Scientific	Cat#12548B
Axio Imager MOT M1 (fluorescent microscope)	Carl Zeiss Microscopy	Cat#4300049901000000
C4742-80-12AG ORCA-ER-1394 (microscope camera)	Carl Zeiss Microscopy	Cat# 4108301700000000