Variable human minisatellite-like regions in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 762-771

  Supply, Philip ^a   Mazars, Edith ^a   Lesjean, Sarah ^a   Vincent, Véronique ^b   Gicquel, Brigitte ^b   Locht, Camille ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOME; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENOME; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034018329     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01905.x     Document Type: Article

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