Isolation of Rhodospirillum centenum mutants defective in phototactic colony motility by transposon mutagenesis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1248-1255

  Jiang, Ze Yu ^a   Rushing, Brenda G ^a   Bai, Yong ^a   Gest, Howard ^a   Bauer, Carl E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; FLAGELLUM; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOSPIRILLUM; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOSPIRILLUM CENTENUM;

EID: 0031933995     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.5.1248-1255.1998     Document Type: Article

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