Diversity and redundancy in bacterial chromosome segregation mechanisms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1455, 2005, Pages 497-505

  Errington, Jeff ^a   Murray, Heath ^a   Ling, Juan Wu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis sporulation; Bacterial cell cycle; Chromosome segregation; divIVA; racA; soj spo0j system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 20544441059     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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