Mosaic structure of plasmids from natural populations of Escherichia coli

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1091-1100

  Fidelma Boyd, E ^a,b,c   Hill, Charles W ^a,b,c   Rich, Stephen M ^a,b,c   Hard, Daniel L ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029888490     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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