Studies on the large subunit rRNA genes and their flanking regions of leuconostocs

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 807-818

  Nour, Mohamed ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

23S; Leuconostocs; Polymerase chain reaction; rDNA; rrn operons; Spacer regions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; LEUCONOSTOC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

LEUCONOSTOC LACTIS; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES SUBSP. CREMORIS; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES SUBSP. DEXTRANICUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032445392     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/w98-072     Document Type: Article

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