Isolation of carbon- and nitrogen-deprivation-induced loci of Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021 by Tn5-luxAB mutagenesis

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3205-3218

  Milcamps, Anne ^a   Ragatz, Daniel M ^a   Lim, PyungOk ^a   Berger, Kelly A ^a   De Bruijn, Frans J ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Luciferase activity; Nutrient deprivation; Rhizobium starvation; Tn5 lux

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOIL MICROFLORA; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI 1021;

EID: 0031792984     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-11-3205     Document Type: Article

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