Deciding fate in adverse times: Sporulation and competence in Bacillus subtilis

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2009-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0912185106PMID 19995980PMCID PMC2795487
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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