On prokaryotic intelligence: Strategies for sensing the environment

BioSystems

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 94-103

  Marijuán, Pedro C ^a   Navarro, Jorge ^a   del Moral, Raquel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ARAGONÉS DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

Author keywords

Checkpoints; Impredicativity; Integrative dynamics; Molecular recognition; One two three component systems; Power law; Prokaryotic intelligence

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOFILM; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN; SIGNALING; SPORULATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CELL CYCLE; DORMANCY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 73449127191     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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