Timing, self-control and a sense of direction are the secrets of multicopy plasmid stability

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1137-1145

  Summers, David ^a  

^a Department of Genetics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE;

CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIOCIN PLASMIDS; CELL DIVISION; DIMERIZATION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031659852     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01012.x     Document Type: Review

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