From the origin of species to the origin of bacterial flagella

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 784-790

  Pallen, Mark J ^a   Matzke, Nicholas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b National Center for Science Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMOTAXIS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLA; RELIGION AND SCIENCE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33748874852     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1493     Document Type: Article

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