Microbial individuality: how single-cell heterogeneity enables population level strategies

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue , 2015, Pages 104-112

  Martins, Bruno M C ^a   Locke, James C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL POPULATION; DAUGHTER CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; YEAST; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922650864     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2015.01.003     Document Type: Review

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