Analysis of the genome of the moderate halophile Halomonas eurihalina

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 233-239

  Llamas, Inmaculada ^a   Sánchez, Ma José ^a   Argandoña, Montserrat ^a   Béjar, Victoria ^a   Quesada, Emilia ^a   Del Moral, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENOME SIZE; HALOMONAS EURIHALINA; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HALOMONAS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS EURIHALINA; PROKARYOTA;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HALOMONAS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0043212186     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-001-0109-2     Document Type: Article

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