Monitoring subtoxic environmental hazards by stress-responsive luminous bacteria

Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 179-185

  Belkin, Shimshon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; STRESS; VIBRIO; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0029809116     PISSN: 10534725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2256(1996)11:3<179::AID-TOX2>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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