Genetic snapshots of the Rhizobiumspecies NGR234 genome

Genome Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2000, Pages

  Viprey, Virginie ^a,c   Rosenthal, André ^b   Broughton, William J ^a   Perret, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infection Thread; PrsE; Shotgun Sequence; Symbiotic Gene; Symbiotic Plasmid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0034577812     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2000-1-6-research0014     Document Type: Article

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