Molecular biology of mycoplasmas

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 25-57

  Dybvig, Kevin ^a   Voelker, LeRoy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

antigenic variation; gene expression; gene transfer; genetic recombination; modification enzymes; phase variation; restriction enzymes

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATALES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0029796028     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.25     Document Type: Review

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