Identification of a truncated Tn1721-like transposon located on a small plasmid of Escherichia coli isolated from Varanus indicus

Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 86-89

  Waturangi, D E ^a,b   Schwarz, S ^a   Suwanto, A ^a,b,c   Kehrenberg, C ^a   Erdelen, W ^a,d  

^a INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Tropical Biology   (Indonesia)

^d UNESCO Division of Water Sciences   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; SQUAMATA; TRANSPOSON TN1721; TRANSPOSONS; VARANUS; VARANUS INDICUS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; LIZARD; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0037872181     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0450.2003.00625.x     Document Type: Article

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