Presence of lactose genes and insertion sequences in plasmids of minor species of the genus Lactococcus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1112-1115

  Bounaix, Stéphane ^a,c   Benachour, Abdellah ^a   Novel, Georges ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b CN EVA ^*  (France)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE;

ARTICLE; DAIRY INDUSTRY; GENE SEQUENCE; LACTOCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030048085     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.3.1112-1115.1996     Document Type: Article

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