Why are rod-shaped bacteria rod shaped?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 452-455

  Koch, Arthur L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GRAM-POSITIVE RODS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0036791864     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02440-X     Document Type: Review

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