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Bacterial Motility and Chemotaxis: The molecular Biology of a Behavioral System

Robert M. Macnab Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Daniel E. Koshland Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Pages 291-341 | Published online: 23 Dec 2009

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