Bacterial flagellar diversity and evolution: seek simplicity and distrust it?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-5

  Snyder, Lori A S ^a   Loman, Nicholas J ^a   Fütterer, Klaus ^a   Pallen, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MAGNESIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CELL MOTILITY; CELL ORGANELLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENETIC VARIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA);

EID: 58149302693     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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