Identification of novel cry-type genes from Bacillus thuringiensis strains on the Basis of restriction fragment length polymorphism of the PCR-amplified DNA

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1369-1377

  Kuo, White Shang ^a   Chak, Kin Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 0029882037     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.4.1369-1377.1996     Document Type: Article

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