Microbial sciences: The superficial life of microbes

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7091, 2006, Pages 300-302

  Kolter, Roberto ^a   Greenberg, E Peter ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE;

BIOFILM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLORA; BIOFILM; CELL TYPE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY; SOIL MICROFLORA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33744981593     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/441300a     Document Type: Short Survey

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