Characterization of the Tra2 region of the incHI1 plasmid R27

Plasmid

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 226-239

  Rooker, Michelle M ^a   Sherburne, Craig ^a   Lawley, Trevor D ^a   Taylor, Diane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; REGULATOR GENE; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

AGROBACTERIUM; NOVOSPHINGOBIUM AROMATICIVORANS; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS AROMATICIVORANS;

EID: 0032971431     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1999.1396     Document Type: Article

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