Turning death into creative force during biofilm engineering

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

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 18633-18634

  Schultz, Daniel ^a   Onuchic, José N ^b   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; SURFACTIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILM; CELL DEATH; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILMS;

EID: 84869232319     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215227109     Document Type: Note

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