Plasmid and chromosome segregation in prokaryotes

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 313-320

  Møller Jensen, Jakob ^a   Jensen, Rasmus B ^b   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034234636     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01787-X     Document Type: Review

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