Development of a Rhodococcus equi-Escherichia coli plasmid shuttle vector

Plasmid

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 180-187

  Zheng, Hui ^a   Tkachuk Saad, Olga ^a   Prescott, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; PLASMID VECTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 0031279551     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1997.1311     Document Type: Article

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