Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5627, 2003, Pages 1920-

  Ackermann, Martin ^a,c   Stearns, Stephen C ^b   Jenal, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGING; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

EID: 0038724020     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1083532     Document Type: Article

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10. We thank M. Doebeli and M. Riek for helpful discussions and F. Zoller, R. Wyss, and P. Jäggi for technical assistance. Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation grants 31-S9050.99 (to U.J.) and 31-28511.90 (to S.C.S.).