Quorum sensing negatively regulates chitinase in Vibrio harveyi

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-49

  Defoirdt, Tom ^a   Darshanee Ruwandeepika, H A ^a,b   Karunasagar, Indrani ^b   Boon, Nico ^a   Bossier, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Animal and Fisheries Sciences University   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); VIBRIO; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 77955804539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00043.x     Document Type: Article

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