Divergence of a linear and a circular plasmid in disjunct natural isolates of the fungus Neurospora

Plasmid

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-125

  Xu, Yan ^a   Yang, Simon ^a   Turitsa, Irina ^a   Griffiths, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GENE;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 0032871564     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1999.1420     Document Type: Article

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