The first detection of the insertion sequence ISW1 in the intracellular reproductive parasite Wolbachia

Plasmid

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-19

  Masui, Shinji ^a   Kamoda, Satoru ^a   Sasaki, Tetsuhiko ^a   Ishikawa, Hajime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMINIZATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0032866440     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1999.1407     Document Type: Article

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