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THE study of sessile freshwater bacteria induced Henrici and Johnson1 to draw up a preliminary taxonomic system comprising many sessile species. They brought all these together in one order, Caulobacteriales; Caulobocter being the name given to one of the genera. This genus is characterized by the presence of a stalk connecting one end of the elongated bacterial body to a solid substrate and by multiplication by transverse binary fission. The first to describe such a bacterium, without giving it a name, was Jones2.
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Henrici, A. T., and Johnson, D. E., J. Bact., 30, 61 (1935).
Jones, M., Centr. Bakt. Parasitenk., Abt. II, 14, 459 (1905).
Houwink, A. L., and W. van Iterson, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 5, 10 (1950).
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HOUWINK, A. Caulobacter versus Bacillus spec. div.. Nature 168, 654–655 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168654b0
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