The bacterial flagellar motor: An electromechanical analysis
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An electromechanical analysis Tim Elston Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 Alexander Mogilner Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Aravi Samuel Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, MA 02142 George Oster Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-3112
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تاریخ انتشار 1996