Bacterial evolution: Bacteria play pass the gene

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Saunders, Nigel J ^a   Hood, Derek W ^a   Moxon, E Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA TRANSFER; EVOLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; NEISSERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033545659     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80108-0     Document Type: Article

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