Phosphate starvation decouples cell differentiation from DNA replication control in the dimorphic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus.

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"The study was funded by grants from the Swedish Research Council (2016-03300 to KJ, 2020-03545 to KJ), a future leaders grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF, FFL15-0005 to KJ), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 797801 to MF as well as funding from the Strategic Research Areas (SFO) program distributed through Stockholm University to KJ. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."