Among the many greater than 500 species of micro organism that thrive within the human mouth, one appears to play by its personal guidelines.
Quite than reproducing by splitting itself in two, like most micro organism do, Corynebacterium matruchotii divides into as many as 14 cells concurrently, researchers report within the Sept. 10 Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences.
C. matruchotii is a filamentous bacterium recognized to reside in plaque close to the gum line. Microbiologist Scott Chimileski of the Marine Organic Laboratory in Woods Gap, Mass., observed cells prolifically splitting as he and colleagues used time-lapse imaging to check reside microbial communities within the human mouth (SN: 7/11/16).
