I can form an 'endospore', a little coating that protects me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bacillus subtilis] Reference

When I'm in my endospore I can survive very high temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bacillus subtilis] Reference

Nor must we overlook the possibility that the endospore-formation in non-motile bacteria more than merely resembles the development of azygospores in the Conjugatae, and some Ulothricaceae, if reduced in size, would resemble them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The true spore or endospore begins with the appearance of a minute granule in the protoplasm of a vegetative cell; this granule enlarges and in a few hours has taken to itself all the protoplasm, secreted a thin but very resistive envelope, and is a ripe ovoid spore, smaller than the mother-cell and lying loosely in it (cf.figs. 6, 9, 10, and 11).    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The bacterial endospore (spore) has recently been proposed as a new surface display system.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The article mentions that the bacteria which didn't protect themselves with the endospore stage died within minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slashdot] Reference

Using its internal plasma technology, the TriClean Pro will destroy 99. 999% of trapped bacteria and viruses, and 99. 99% of hard to kill bacterial endospore microorganisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Its "capture and destroy" approach using the company's proprietary plasma technology will kill 99.999% of trapped bacteria and viruses, and 99.99% of hard to destroy bacterial endospore microorganisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

A double wall, a thin delicate wall of unaltered cellulose, the endospore or intine, and a tough outer cuticularized exospore or extine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

I can form an endospore to protect myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

99. 999% of trapped bacteria and viruses, and 99. 99% of hard to kill bacterial endospore microorganisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Includes important endospore forming bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference