Development of a Physical and Genetic Map of the Virulent Wolbachia Strain wMelPop

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 7077-7084

  Sun, Ling V ^a   Riegler, Markus ^b   O'Neill, Scott L ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN APAI; PROTEIN ASCI; PROTEIN FSEI; PROTEIN SMAI; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WOLBACHIA;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHENOTYPE; VIRULENCE; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0344235399     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.24.7077-7084.2003     Document Type: Article

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