Making sense of it all: bacterial chemotaxis
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@article{Wadhams_2004, title={Making sense of it all: bacterial chemotaxis}, volume={5}, ISSN={1471-0080}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrm1524}, DOI={10.1038/nrm1524}, number={12}, journal={Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Wadhams, George H. and Armitage, Judith P.}, year={2004}, month=dec, pages={1024–1037} }