Gene regulation mediates host specificity of a bacterial pathogen

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 791-797

  Killiny, Nabil ^a   Almeida, Rodrigo P P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PRUNUS DULCIS; XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA;

EID: 84859827822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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