Heterocyst formation

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1996, Pages 59-78

  Wolk, C Peter ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

akinetes; Anabaena; Nostoc; pattern; spacing

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE FUSION; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANABAENA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION;

EID: 0030458712     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.59     Document Type: Review

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