Intercellular signalling in Stigmatella aurantiaca

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 593-597

  Plaga, Wulf ^a   Schairer, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a Zentrum fur Molec Biologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCALES; PROKARYOTA; STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA;

EID: 0032717844     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(99)00027-2     Document Type: Review

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