Fig. 5
Morphological features and cell division of strain EP7T. (A) Phase contrast microscopy reveals cells of strain EP7T to be spherical and to appear as single cells, pairs of two, or small chains. The scale bar represents 2 μm. (B) Cells of strain EP7T have a mean length of 2.4 μm and a mean width of 2.2 μm representing an almost spherical shape. (C) Phase contrast time-lapse microscopy of strain EP7T showing cell division via asymmetric cell division (“polar budding"). Scale bars represent 2 μm.
