Spore formation as a multi-cellular phenomenon includes a trade-off: cell divisions before sporulation increase the total number of spores formed at the end. In contrast, rapid spore formation leads ...

Spore formation occurs in a sporangium, which consists of a mother cell that contains an inner cell (forespore) that eventually forms the mature spore. Spore-coat components are synthesized inside ...

but this circumstance does not detract from the remarkable fact that these strictly anærobic representatives of a genus which until now has generally been considered to be non-spore-forming ...