Caenorhabditis elegans mutants resistant to attachment of Yersinia biofilms

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 221-230

  Darby, Creg ^a,c   Chakraborti, Amrita ^b   Politz, Samuel M ^b   Daniels, Calvin C ^c   Tan, Li ^c   Drace, Kevin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; EPIDERMIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EPIDERMIS; LOCOMOTION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; YERSINIA;

EID: 34548570370     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.067496     Document Type: Article

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