%0 Journal Article %A Edwards, Clive %T Sensitivity of Synchronous Cultures of Bacillus subtilis to Lysozyme %D 1980 %J Microbiology, %V 119 %N 1 %P 277-279 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-119-1-277 %I Microbiology Society, %X Rates of lysis by lysozyme (expressed as the decrease in A 550 min−1) of synchronously dividing cells of Bacillus subtilis rose in concert with the stepwise increase in cell numbers. Asynchronously growing cells showed no periodicities in sensitivity; rates of lysis reflected the exponential increase in culture density. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-119-1-277