When spore-forming bacteria, such as Bacillus or Clostridium, enter a state of starvation, they transform into a state of dormancy in order to survive. No other life form is as difficult to eliminate ...

Definition: The layer in a bacterial endospore that lies under the exosporium, and is impermeable to many toxic molecules. The coat may also contain enzymes that are involved in endospore germination.

OOSPORES OF “VoLVOX MINOR.”—Dr. Kirchner, in the recent part of Cohn's “Beiträge zur Biologic der Pflanzen,” describes the germination of the oospores, and in this supplements the important ...

Microbiologist Teresa Thiel of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, offers the following explanation: Many microorganisms easily survive the environmental stresses of the microbial world, such as ...