Recombination between rRNA operons created most of the ribotype variation observed in the seventh pandemic clone of Vibrio cholerae

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1213-1221

  Lan, Ruiting ^a   Reeves, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ribotyping; rrn recombination; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT; VIBRIO;

ANIMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0031801644     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-5-1213     Document Type: Article

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