Genome plasticity in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 173-179

  Gibbs, Carol P ^a,b   Meyer, Thomas F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Inversion; Neissaria; Rearrangement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0030561323     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00404-1     Document Type: Article

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