Bacterial chemotaxis: Unsolved mystery of the flagellar switch

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 13, 1998, Pages

  Eisenbach, Michael ^a   Caplan, S Roy ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032543569     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70288-x     Document Type: Article

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