Tetracycline enhances Tn916-mediated conjugal transfer

Plasmid

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 213-224

  Showsh, Sasha A ^a   Andrews Jr , Robert E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CELL FUSION; CONJUGATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA TRANSFER; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TETRACYCLINE;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0026468662     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0147-619X(92)90053-D     Document Type: Article

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