Flagellum-independent trail formation of escherichia coli on semi-solid agar

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1802-1805

  Fukuoka, Hajime ^a,b   Homma, Michio ^b   Ichihara, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell morphology; Escherichia coli; Flagella; Growth; Migration

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROSCOPY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLA; MICROSCOPY; MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 2442593126     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.67.1802     Document Type: Article

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