Heterocyst patterns without patterning proteins in cyanobacterial filaments

Developmental Biology

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 427-434

  Allard, Jun F ^a   Hill, Alison L ^b   Rutenberg, Andrew D ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anabaena; Computational modeling; Diazotrophic; Differentiation; Filamentous cyanobacteria; Fixed nitrogen; Growth and division; Heterocyst commitment; Lateral inhibition; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; HETEROCYST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

EID: 36549050898     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.09.045     Document Type: Article

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