Aerial morphogenesis: Enter the chaplins

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Talbot, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 0141838884     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.08.040     Document Type: Review

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