Live Cell Imaging of Germination and Outgrowth of Individual Bacillus subtilis Spores; the Effect of Heat Stress Quantitatively Analyzed with SporeTracker

• Rachna Pandey ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rachna Pandey, Alex Ter Beek

  Affiliation Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Alex Ter Beek ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rachna Pandey, Alex Ter Beek

  * E-mail: A.S.TerBeek@uva.nl

  Affiliation Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Norbert O. E. Vischer,

  Affiliation Van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy Section of Molecular Cytology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Jan P. P. M. Smelt,

  Affiliation Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Stanley Brul ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Erik M. M. Manders

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy Section of Molecular Cytology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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