6.12 Detection, Purification, and Synthesis of n-acylhomoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing Signal Molecules

Methods in Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue C, 1998, Pages 319-330

  Càmara, Miguel ^a   Daykin, Mavis ^a   Chhabra, Siri Ram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77956659258     PISSN: 05809517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0580-9517(08)70293-9     Document Type: Article

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