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Characterized sporulation genes are on the outer circle, genes not associated with a specific sporulation cycle or uncharacterized genes are in the inside rectangle.

From Nature • May 3, 2016

Relatively few intestinal spore-forming bacteria have been cultured to date, and while metagenomic studies suggest that other unexpected members of the intestinal microbiota possess potential sporulation genes, these bacteria remain poorly characterized11, 12, 13, 14.

From Nature • May 3, 2016

Genes not previously associated with sporulation are also present and these have putative roles as heat shock, membrane-associated proteins and DNA-polymerase-associated proteins.

From Nature • May 3, 2016

Most species of diatoms reproduce asexually, although some instances of sexual reproduction and sporulation also exist.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

After a time they make their way into other red blood-corpuscles, develop into new malarial amoeboid parasites, and repeat the growth and sporulation.

From The Story of Germ Life by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)