Restricted cellular differentiation in cyanobacterial filaments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15080-15081

  Flores, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; NITROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CYANOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; NOTE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NOSTOC;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84866556659     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213507109     Document Type: Note

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