Diverse paths to midcell: Assembly of the bacterial cell division machinery

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Goehring, Nathan W ^a   Beckwith, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COLI BACILLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 21844441637     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.06.038     Document Type: Short Survey

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