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filamentation

The continued elongation of bacillary bacteria without septum formation (division), which occurs in response to various stressors (e.g., DNA damage, antibiotics in the culture medium or inhibition of replication) that trigger the SOS response system.
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Similarly, modulation instability and filamentation may provide an optical analogue of cosmic structure formation, they explained.
The optical yarn defect sensor removes smallest knots, fluff, filamentation, thick places and capillary breaks before being interwoven into the fabric.
Milian et al., "Tubular filamentation for laser material processing," Scientific Reports, vol.
In principle they might either be related to the additional (weak) oscillation of an undesired higher transverse mode (i.e., #4 with five intensity maxima here) or the occurrence of filamentation [40-45].
The Ras1-Cyr-PKA signaling pathway controls fungal virulence and filamentation. The optimal functioning of this pathway requires a high cell energy status.
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