Mobile gene cassettes and integrons in evolution

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 68-80

  Hall, Ruth M ^a   Collis, Christina M ^a   Kim, Mi Jurng ^b   Partridge, Sally R ^a,b   Recchia, Gavin D ^a,c   Stokes, H W ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; EVOLUTION; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032813386     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08866.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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