Two aberrant mercury resistance transposons in the Pseudomonas stutzeri plasmid pPB

Gene

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-42

  Reniero, Daniela ^a   Mozzon, Elisabetta ^a   Galli, Enrica ^a   Barbieri, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Plasmid evolution; Tn501; Tn5053

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTRUM; TRANSPOSON;

NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 0032536486     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00641-0     Document Type: Article

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