A natural large chromosomal inversion in Lactococcus lactis is mediated by homologous recombination between two insertion sequences

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 4834-4842

  Daveran Mingot, Marie Line ^a   Campo, Nathalie ^a   Ritzenthaler, Paul ^a,b   Le Bourgeois, Pascal ^a  

^a Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. CREMORIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031656712     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.18.4834-4842.1998     Document Type: Article

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