A highly conserved plasmid from the extreme thermophile Thermotoga maritima MC24 is a member of a family of plasmids distributed worldwide

Plasmid

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 236-240

  Akimkina, T ^a   Ivanov, P ^a   Kostrov, S ^a   Sokolova, T ^b   Bonch Osmolovskaya, E ^b   Firman, K ^c   Dutta, C F ^c   McClellan, J A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; THERMOTOGA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0032700191     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1999.1429     Document Type: Article

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