Caulobacter crescentus
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Caulobacter crescentus
It is an important model to cellular differentiation and one of its most perceptible characteristics is that its two child-cells are very different from each other, one being mobile and the other fixed. The mobile one has a flagellum and swims until it finds a favorable environment, at which point it loses its flagellum and develops a new structure that lets the cell fix itself to a substrate.
The optimal temperature to the growth of Caulobacter is around 30°C and its generational period is 2.5 hours.
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