A family of genes located on four separate 32-kilobase circular plasmids in Borrelia burgdorferi B31

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3508-3516

  Stevenson, Brian ^a,b   Tilly, Kit ^a   Rosa, Patricia A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0029892683     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.12.3508-3516.1996     Document Type: Article

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