Host-dependent transposition of Tn5041

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 365-373

  Kholodii, G Ya ^a   Mindlin, S Z ^a   Gorlenko, Zh M ^a   Bass, I A ^a   Kalyaeva, E S ^a   Nikiforov, V G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

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