Bacteria differently deploy type-IV pili on surfaces to adapt to nutrient availability

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ni, Lei ^a   Yang, Shuai ^a   Zhang, Rongrong ^a   Jin, Zhenyu ^a   Chen, Hao ^b   Conrad, Jacinta C ^c   Jin, Fan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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EID: 84991624072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20555008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npjbiofilms.2015.29     Document Type: Article

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