Transient genetic asymmetry and cell fate in a bacterium

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 107-112

  Dworkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL FATE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL POLARITY; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037303774     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(02)00046-X     Document Type: Review

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