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Recording Multicellular Behavior in Myxococcus xanthus Biofilms using Time-lapse Microcinematography
Published on: August 6, 2010
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Sequential changes in the cyclic nucleotide levels and cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase activities during
J Ho1, H D McCurdy1
1Department of Biology, University of Windsor, N9B 3P4, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Current Microbiology
|August 14, 2016
Abstract:
The levels of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate, guanosine 3'-5'-monophosphate and the activities of their respective phosphodiesterases exhibited changes during development ofMyxococcus xanthus that are substantially consistent with role postulated for each in a previously proposed model.
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