Structural analysis of a new cryptic plasmid pAR67 isolated from Ruminococcus albus AR67

Plasmid

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-88

  Ohara, Hiroki ^a   Miyagi, Tomoko ^a   Kaneichi, Koji ^a   Karita, Shuichi ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuo ^a   Kimura, Tetsuya ^a   Sakka, Kazuo ^a   Ohmiya, Kunio ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; RUMINOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; RUMINOCOCCUS; RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS;

EID: 0031910893     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1997.1324     Document Type: Article

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