Mobile elements as a combination of functional modules

Plasmid

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-35

  Toussaint, Ariane ^a   Merlin, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bacteriophage; Functional module; Insertion sequence; Integron; Mobile elements; Mobility; Plasmid; Transposon

Indexed keywords

TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROKARYOTE; TRANSPOSON;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0036152835     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.2001.1552     Document Type: Article

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