Streptococcal transformation: Essential features and applications of a natural gene exchange system

Plasmid

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 10-20

  Lunsford, R Dwayne ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031931880     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1997.1323     Document Type: Article

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