Redundant homosexual F transfer facilitates selection-induced reversion of plasmid mutations

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3037-3043

  Peters, Joseph E ^a   Bartoszyk, Irena M ^a   Dheer, Sachin ^a   Benson, Spencer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029894863     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.11.3037-3043.1996     Document Type: Article

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