Back to the future: The new ICE age: MicroCommentary

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 554-556

  Churchward, Gordon ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; STRESS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 53849091326     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06415.x     Document Type: Note

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