Let's get 'Fisical' with bacterial nucleoid

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1285-1290

  Le Chat, Ludovic ^a   Espéli, Olivier ^a  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL NUCLEOID; CELL ADHESION; CELL SHAPE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; NUCLEOPROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84870991725     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12073     Document Type: Note

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