Transposon mutagenesis in Halomonas eurihalina

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-18

  Llamas, Inmaculada ^a   Argandoña, Montserrat ^a   Quesada, Emilia ^a   del Moral, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Exopolysaccharide; Halomonas eurihalina; Halophile; Mutagenesis; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ACEMANNAN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE TARGETING; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOMONAS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOMONAS EURIHALINA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034010861     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(00)00132-7     Document Type: Article

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