Plasposons: Modular self-cloning minitransposon derivatives for rapid genetic analysis of gram-negative bacterial genomes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2710-2715

  Dennis, Jonathan J ^a   Zylstra, Gerben J ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031869639     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2710-2715.1998     Document Type: Article

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