Transformation of plasmids of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans encoding ampicillin resistance to Escherichia coli strain DH5-α for detecting copper tolerance genes on such plasmids

Resource and Environmental Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 185-191

  Ahmad, Z ^a   Ghauri, M A ^a   Anwar, M A ^a   Iqbal, M ^a   Rehman, M ^a   Akhtar, K ^a   Khalid, Ahmad M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COPPER; PLASMID; TOLERANCE;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037697825     PISSN: 13582283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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