Construction and use of a new vector/transposon, pLBT::mini-Tn10:lac:kan, to identify environmentally resonsive genes in a marine bacterium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 140, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 287-294

  Albertson, Nan H ^a   Stretton, Serina ^b,c   Pongpattanakitshote, Somchai ^b,c   Östling, Jörgen ^a   Marshall, Kevin C ^b   Goodman, Amanda E ^b,c   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marine bacteria; Reporter transposon construction; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO;

EID: 0030199739     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00196-6     Document Type: Article

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