The potential of integrons and connected programmed rearrangements for mediating horizontal gene transfer

APMIS, Supplement

Volumn 106, Issue 84, 1998, Pages 37-42

  Sundström, Lars ^a  

^a Microbiology Division   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031796396     PISSN: 0903465X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.1998.tb05646.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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