Surface appendages of bacterial spores

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 623-625

  Driks, Adam ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM TAENIOSPORUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM;

EID: 33846206774     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05564.x     Document Type: Review

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