Recommended Reading

Textbook:

Molecular Biology of the Gene, sixth edition. Watson et al. (Person/Benjamin Cummings). Chapter 20.

Three general reviews of spore formation by B. subtilis:

• Rudner DZ and Losick R (2001) Morphological coupling in development: lessons from prokaryotes. Dev Cell 1: 733-742.
• Piggot PJ and Hilbert DW (2004) Sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. Curr Opin Microbiol. 7: 579-586.
• Hilbert DW and Piggot PJ (2004) Compartmentalization of gene expression during Bacillus subtilis spore formation. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 68: 234-262.

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