Bert Ely

TL;DR: C. crescentus is, to the authors' knowledge, the first free-living α-class proteobacterium to be sequenced and will serve as a foundation for exploring the biology of this group of bacteria, which includes the obligate endosymbiont and human pathogen Rickettsia prowazekii, the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and the bovine andhuman pathogen Brucella abortus.

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the genetics of Caulobacter crescentus, a gram-negative, aquatic bacterium, characterized by an unusual cell cycle, which is adapted to growth in low nutrient conditions and grows poorly, if at all, in media designed for Escherichia coli.

TL;DR: In spite of the discordant phylogenetic and phylogeographic signals, the demographic history of Atlantic swordfish and Atlantic bluefin tuna suggests concordance in the timeline of population expansion.

TL;DR: In enrichment procedures for C. crescentus auxotrophs, spontaneously derived mutants occur at a frequency of 5-10% among the survivors of an enrichment procedure, Consequently, large numbers of mutants are readily obtained without any need for mutagenesis.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the PleC protein (and perhaps the proteins encoded by the other pod genes as well) regulates the expression of genes involved in polar organelle development through the phosphorylation of key regulatory proteins.