The 1st volume of our Research Topic "The Bacterial Cell: Coupling between Growth, Nucleoid Replication, Cell Division and Shape” was published as an eBook in

Bacterial Physiology was inaugurated as a discipline by the seminal research of Maaløe, Schaechter and Kjeldgaard published in 1958. Their work clarified the r

This book describes the structures and functions of active protein filaments, found in bacteria and archaea, and now known to perform crucial roles in cell divi

Bacterial Physiology focuses on the physiology and chemistry of microorganisms and the value of bacterial physiology in the other fields of biology. The selecti

How small can a free-living organism be? On the surface, this question is straightforward-in principle, the smallest cells can be identified and measured. But u