Defining heterogeneity within bacterial populations via single cell approaches

BioEssays

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 782-790

  Davis, Kimberly M ^a   Isberg, Ralph R ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

host pathogen interactions; population heterogeneity; single cell analyses

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WORKER;

EID: 84978924337     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500121     Document Type: Review

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