A new evaluation of our life-support system. Bacterial benefactors - And other prokaryotic pursuits

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 820-824

  Toussaint, Ariane ^a   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^b   Salmond, George P C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORIC ACID; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOME; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE POOL; GENOMIC ISLAND; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OSMOLARITY; PH; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; STREPTOMYCES; TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIOFILMS; FORECASTING; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0142155184     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor930     Document Type: Article

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