Independent acquisition and insertion into different chromosomal locations of the same pathogenicity island in Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 291-303

  Hare, Janelle M ^a   Wagner, Alexandra K ^a,b   McDonough, Kathleen A ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE TRANSFER RNA; INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ASPARTATE-TRNA LIGASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032896649     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01172.x     Document Type: Article

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