A positive selection vector for the analysis of structural plasmid instability in Bacillus subtilis

Plasmid

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-30

  Meima, Rob ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Bron, Sierd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENE PRODUCT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DELETION MUTANT; EXPRESSION VECTOR; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030040923     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1996.0002     Document Type: Article

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