Bacteriocins: Evolution, ecology, and application

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 117-137

  Riley, Margaret A ^a   Wertz, John E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colicin; Diversity; Nisin; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIOCIN; EXOTOXIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOOD PRESERVATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIOCINS; COLICINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOOD PRESERVATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036406590     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.161024     Document Type: Review

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