Abstract:Although cellular morphogenesis is an area of microbiology that is widely studied, very little is understood about the manner in which cells shape themselves or how they optimise their form to their environment. There exists an extensive literature on body shape, anatomy and life cycle of numerous single-celled micro-organisms including both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. However, with regards to morphology itself, there is a shortage of general empirical relationships to enable the interknitting of specific feat… Show more
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