Genes involved in the determination of the rate of inversions at short inverted repeats

Genes to Cells

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 425-437

  Slupska, Malgorzata M ^a   Chiang, Ju Huei ^a   Luther, Wendy M ^a   Stewart, Jean Lee ^a   Amii, Lisa ^a   Conrad, Alexis ^a   Miller, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; LAC OPERON; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033949485     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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