Genetic determinants of self identity and social recognition in bacteria

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5886, 2008, Pages 256-259

  Gibbs, Karine A ^a   Urbanowski, Mark L ^b   Greenberg, E Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; GENE; GENETICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOTILITY; MOVEMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RECOGNITION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 47249086111     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160033     Document Type: Article

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