Radiation resistance: The fragments that remain

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages

  Battista, John R ^a  

^a Louisiana S ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034624671     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00353-5     Document Type: Review

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