A group II intron in a conjugative transposon from the gram-positive bacterium, Clostridium difficile

Gene

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 145-150

  Mullany, Peter ^a   Pallen, Mark ^b   Wilks, Mark ^b   Stephen, John R ^a   Tabaqchali, Soad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile elements; Reverse transcriptase; Tn5397; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030603250     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00511-2     Document Type: Article

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