Variation in 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer regions among Bacillus subtilis 168 isolates

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 101-109

  Shaver, Yevette J ^a   Nagpal, Madan L ^a   Fox, Karen F ^a   Rudner, Rivka ^b   Fox, Alvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; RRNA OPERON; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0035723426     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02600.x     Document Type: Article

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