Skew-Laplace distribution in Gram-negative bacterial axenic cultures: New insights into intrinsic cellular heterogeneity

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 749-755

  Julià, Olga ^a   Vives Rego, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CULTURE MEDIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 15844400068     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27460-0     Document Type: Article

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