Conjugation in archaea: Frequent occurrence of conjugative plasmids in Sulfolobus

Plasmid

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 190-202

  Prangishvili, David ^a   Albers, Sonja Verena ^c   Holz, Ingelore ^a   Arnold, Hans Peter ^a   Stedman, Kenneth ^a   Klein, Tino ^a   Singh, Harpreet ^a   Hiort, Jan ^a   Schweier, Anja ^a   Kristjansson, Jakob K ^b   Zillig, Wolfram ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Technological Institute of Iceland   (Iceland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 0031733835     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1363     Document Type: Article

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