Regulatory sequences of two flagellin genes in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. alesti

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 315-320

  Ankarloo, Jonas ^a   Zhang, Min Ying ^b   Lövgren, Ann ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Flagellin gene; Regulatory sequence

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ALESTI;

EID: 0030021421     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-2-315     Document Type: Article

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