Determination of cell fate selection during phage lambda infection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 20705-20710

  St Pierre, François ^a   Endy, Drew ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deterministic; Extrinsic variation; Lysis lysogeny; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SELECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYSOGENY;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58549110229     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808831105     Document Type: Article

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