Sequencing the 500-kb GC-rich symbiotic replicon of Rhizobium sp. NGR234 using dye terminators and a thermostable 'sequenase': A beginning

Genome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 590-600

  Freiberg, Christoph ^a   Perret, Xavier ^b   Broughton, William J ^b   Rosenthal, André ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DNA POLYMERASE; DYE; PERMEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; GENE SEQUENCE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOSTABILITY;

RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.;

EID: 0029845355     PISSN: 10549803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.7.590     Document Type: Article

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