Monitoring of chromosomal insertions of the IncJ elements R391 and R997 in Escherichia coli K-12

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 355-361

  Murphy, D Brendan ^a   Pembroke, J Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Chromosomal mapping; Conjugative transposon; IncJ; R391; R997

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 1; CONJUGATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; F FACTOR; R FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 0032915316     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00166-4     Document Type: Article

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