DNA segregation in bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2000, Pages 681-708

  Gordon, G S ^a   Wright, A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular localization; Chromosome; Partition; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

CELL POLARITY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS;

CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033759196     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.54.1.681     Document Type: Review

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