A cytoplasmic gene-shuffle system in Kluyveromyces lactis: Use of epitope tagging to detect a killer plasmid-encoded gene product

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 545-554

  Schaffrath, Raffael ^a   Meacock, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KLUYVEROMYCES; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030062244     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.402942.x     Document Type: Article

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