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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2008, p. 7427-7430, Vol. 74, No. 23
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00683-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Effect of Temperature on the Cannibalistic Behavior of Bacillus subtilis{triangledown}

Subir Kumar Nandy, Vinay Prasad, and K. V. Venkatesh*

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India

Received 24 March 2008/ Accepted 17 September 2008

Bacillus subtilis resorts to cannibalism to delay sporulation under severe nutritional limitation. We report the effect of temperature on the dynamics of cannibalism demonstrated by B. subtilis. A model consisting of a delay differential equation may explain the effect of temperature on the dynamics of cannibalism.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India. Phone: 91-22-2576 7223. Fax: 91-22-2572 6895. E-mail: venks{at}che.iitb.ac.in

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 26 September 2008.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2008, p. 7427-7430, Vol. 74, No. 23
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00683-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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