Transfer of streptomycin biosynthesis gene clusters within streptomycetes isolated from soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 5061-5063

  Egan, Sharon ^a   Wiener, Pamela ^a   Kallifidas, Dimitrios ^a   Wellington, Elizabeth M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCINEAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031736834     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.12.5061-5063.1998     Document Type: Article

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