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Coordination of gene expression with growth rate: a feedback or a feed-forward strategy?

Sagi Levy1, Naama Barkai

  • 1Department of Molecular Genetics and Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

FEBS Letters
|November 3, 2009
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