Instability of artificially circularized chromosomes of Streptomyces lividans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 709-719

  Lin, Yi Shing ^a,b   Chen, Carton W ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; TELOMERE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

EID: 0030724765     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5991975.x     Document Type: Article

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