The effect of mismatch repair and heteroduplex formation on sexual isolation in Bacillus

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-18

  Majewski, Jacek ^a   Cohan, Frederick M ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HETERODUPLEX; RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BASE MISPAIRING; BIODIVERSITY; CONJUGATION; DNA REPAIR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

BACILLUS; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031930791     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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