Shufflons: Multiple inversion systems and integrons

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue , 1999, Pages 171-191

  Komano, Teruya ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Integrons; Mating variation; Multiple inversion; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTEGRON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; INTEGRASES; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033382540     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.33.1.171     Document Type: Review

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