Isolation of broad-host-range replicons from marine sediment bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2822-2830

  Sobecky, Patricia A ^a,b   Mincer, Tracy J ^b   Chang, Michelle C ^b   Toukdarian, Aresa ^b   Helinski, Donald R ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPLICON; SEDIMENT;

ACHROMOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; ROSEOBACTER LITORALIS; SERRATIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI; VIBRIO SPLENDIDUS;

EID: 0031903276     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.2822-2830.1998     Document Type: Article

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