Comparative analysis of superintegrons: Engineering extensive genetic diversity in the vibrionaceae

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 428-442

  Rowe Magnus, Dean A ^a,b   Guerout, Anne Marie ^c   Biskri, Latefa ^c   Bouige, Philippe ^c   Mazel, Didier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIBRIONACEAE;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOTOXINS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MARKERS; INTEGRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIBRIONACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; VIBRIONACEAE;

EID: 0037350819     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.617103     Document Type: Article

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