like bacteria, chromosomes are typically circular. In prokaryotes, the circular chromosome is contained in the cytoplasm in an area called the nucleoid. In contrast, in eukaryotes, all of the cell ...

A team of researchers has studied Deinococcus radiodurans and revealed for the first time the process of nucleoid remodeling ...

Planctomycetes challenge our concept of the bacterial cell and of a prokaryote as a cell structure type, as well as our ideas about origins of the eukaryote nucleus. Planctomycetes Are Important ...