Evolving insights: Symbiosis islands and horizontal gene transfer

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2855-2856

  Finan, Turlough M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LOTUS; RHIZOBIUM; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0036096902     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.11.2855-2856.2002     Document Type: Note

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