A simple method for genome-wide screening for advantageous insertions of mobile DNAs in Escherichia coli

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 863-867

  Edwards, Richard J ^a   Sockett, R Elizabeth ^a   Brookfield, John F Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; TRANSPOSON;

CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0037076222     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00837-0     Document Type: Article

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