Macromotives and microbehaviors: The social dimension of bacterial phenotypic variability

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 759-767

  Reuven, Peter ^a   Eldar, Avigdor ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHENOTYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 81955167445     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.09.011     Document Type: Review

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