Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of the genome of Rhodococcus fascians: Genome size and linear and circular replicon composition in virulent and avirulent strains

Current Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 302-308

  Pisabarro, Agustín ^a   Correia, Antonio ^a,b   Martín, Juan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPLICON; RHODOCOCCUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, CIRCULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MARKOV CHAINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPLICON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOCOCCUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031897005     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900314     Document Type: Article

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