Bacterial Dormancy: How to Decide When to Wake Up

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2015, Pages R753-R755

  Van Vliet, Simon ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENETIC VARIATION;

EID: 84940561888     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.039     Document Type: Short Survey

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