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The Vibrio Polar Flagellum: Structure and Regulation

Cameron J Lloyd1,2, Karl E Klose3,4

  • 1South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
|February 15, 2023
PubMed

Keywords:
Flagellar structureFlagellar synthesisVibrio flagellum

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