Exclusion of long heterologous insertions and deletions from the pairing synapsis in pneumococcal transformation

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 695-705

  Pasta, Franck ^a   Sicard, Michel A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Deletion; Heteroduplexes; Insertion; Recombination; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0029920883     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-3-695     Document Type: Article

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