Developmental cheating and the evolutionary biology of Dictyostelium and Myxococcus

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1505-1512

  Dao, Dee N ^a   Kessin, Richard H ^a   Ennis, Herbert L ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Botryllus; Parasitism; Proteolysis; SCF complex; Slime mould

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENCAPSULATION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPOROGENESIS;

EID: 0033925477     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-7-1505     Document Type: Article

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