Cyanobacterial circadian clocks — timing is everything

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-199

  Golden, Susan S ^a   Canales, Shannon R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1842456940     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro774     Document Type: Article

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