Inverted behavioural responses in wild-type Rhodobacter sphaeroides to temporal stimuli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 299-304

  Packer, Helen L ^a   Armitage, Judith P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial motility; Chemotaxis; Rhodobacter sphaeroides; Temporal response

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; OPERON; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0034663783     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00286-X     Document Type: Article

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