Segregation pattern of kanamycin resistance marker in Azotobacter vinelandii did not show the constraints expected in a polyploid bacterium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 247-252

  Pulakat, Lakshmidevi ^a   Efuet, Ekem T ^a   Gavini, Narasaiah ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Azotobacter; Kanamycin resistance; Segregation pattern

Indexed keywords

KANAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLASMIDS; POLYPLOIDY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

AZOTOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032521337     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00039-1     Document Type: Article

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