When the swimming gets tough, the tough form a biofilm

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Belas, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DEGS; PROTEIN DEGU; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROMONAS; AZOSPIRILLUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CAULOBACTER; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SERRATIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; YERSINIA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER; OCTODON DEGUS; PROTEUS (ENTEROBACTERIA); VIBRIO;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84884702449     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12354     Document Type: Note

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