Doing the conjugative two-step: Evidence of recipient autonomy in retrotransfer

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1425-1435

  Heinemann, Jack A ^a,b   Scott, Heidi E ^b   Williams, Meredith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; DNA TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; RETROELEMENTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029893566     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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