Studies on the cyanobacterial family C DNA polymerase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-43

  Ito, Junetsu ^a   Huang, Yiping ^a   Parekh, Tarak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterium; Evolution; Family C DNA polymerase; Phylogeny; Split gene

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RNA SPLICING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0031909966     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00497-7     Document Type: Article

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