Shaping the genome - Restriction-modification systems as mobile genetic elements

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 649-656

  Kobayashi, Ichizo ^a   Nobusato, Ayaka ^a   Kobayashi Takahashi, Noriko ^a   Uchiyama, Ikuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Institute for Basic Biology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032761905     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(99)00026-X     Document Type: Review

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