Bacterial chromatin

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 507-514

  Travers, Andrew ^a   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; CHROMATIN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; GROWTH RATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 24344460870     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2005.08.006     Document Type: Review

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