Global analysis of phase variation in Myxococcus xanthus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 784-804

  Furusawa, Gou ^a   Dziewanowska, Katarzyna ^a   Stone, Hannah ^a   Settles, Matthew ^a   Hartzell, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LOCOMOTION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; XANTHENES;

MYXOCOCCUS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 79960729650     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07732.x     Document Type: Article

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