Alternatives to binary fission in bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 214-224

  Angert, Esther R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANAEROBACTER POLYENDOSPORUS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTHROMITUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BDELLOVIBRIO; BUDDING; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CYANOBACTERIUM; EPULOPISCIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; METABACTERIUM POLYSPORA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVIEW; STANIERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES AVERMITILIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CELL DIVISION; EVOLUTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 14544270263     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1096     Document Type: Review

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