Bacterial chemotaxis: The five sensors of a bacterium

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages

  Grebe, Thorsten W ^a   Stock, Jeff ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032568053     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)00098-0     Document Type: Review

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