A species barrier between bacteriophages T2 and T4: Exclusion, join- copy and join-cut-copy recombination and mutagenesis in the dCTPase genes

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1461-1473

  Gary, Todd P ^a   Colowick, Nancy E ^a   Mosig, Gisela ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA, VIRAL; GENE DELETION; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MYOVIRIDAE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031894946     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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