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- noun Plural form of
endospore .
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Examples
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The swollen muscle contains many spores (also called spherules), each of which contains hundreds of infectious cells called endospores.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Raffel and his colleagues think that the infection is transmitted when one of these spores bursts open and releases its endospores onto the mouthparts of a feeding leech.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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I'm thinking transpermatic endospores are mutagenic and will survive wherever and whatever level of preconditioned environmental elements are in place and/or will rapidly mutate to the level of survival.
Bacteria Could Survive in Martian Soil | Universe Today 2009
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The endospores, however, were able to survive between 4 and 28 hours, even when exposed directly to the UV light.
Bacteria Could Survive in Martian Soil | Universe Today 2009
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Two of the strains of bacteria tested – Bacillus pumilus and Bacillus Nealsonii – are both commonly used in laboratory tests of extreme environmental factors and their effects on bacteria because of their ability to produce endospores when stressed.
Bacteria Could Survive in Martian Soil | Universe Today 2009
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My shape is irregular and I can't make endospores.
Corynebacterium urealyricum Emma Lurie 2007
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I think it's totally unfair of God to make it so that poor Corynebacterium urealyricum's shape is irregular and can't make endospores.
Corynebacterium urealyricum Emma Lurie 2007
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My shape is irregular and I can't make endospores.
Archive 2007-01-01 Emma Lurie 2007
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Both the ascospores of the sexual form and the endospores or conidia of the asexual form will cause wilt if the spores are injected into oak trees.
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An arthrospore, however, is not a true spore but merely an ordinary vegetative cell which separates and passes into a condition of rest, and such may occur in forms which form endospores, _e. g.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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