Temporal changes in the frequency of colicinogeny in Escherichia coli from house mice

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2233-2240

  Gordon, David M ^a   Riley, Margaret A ^b   Pinou, Theodora ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colicin resistance; Colicinogeny; Ecology; Escherichia coli; Mouse

Indexed keywords

COLICIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031666819     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-8-2233     Document Type: Article

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