Characterization of pBP614, a putative rolling-circle plasmid from Bacillus popilliae

Plasmid

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-21

  Longley, Meredith ^a   MacDonald, Ross ^a   Poulter, Russell T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

PAENIBACILLUS POPILLIAE;

EID: 0030900620     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1996.1275     Document Type: Article

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