Bacterial Conjugative Transposons

Genetika

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-31

  Kameneva, S V ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; PLASMID; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; PLASMIDS; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0031608173     PISSN: 00166758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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