Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6715, 1999, Pages 168-171

  Alon, U ^a   Surette, M G ^b   Barkai, N ^a   Leibler, S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Microbiol and Infect Dis ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 0033552946     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16483     Document Type: Article

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