Coupling cell movement to multicellular development in myxobacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-54

  Kaiser, Dale ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SPORE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 1142267977     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro733     Document Type: Article

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