Chromosomal organization and nucleotide sequence of the genes coding for the elongation factors G and Tu of the apple proliferation phytoplasma

Gene

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-109

  Berg, Michael ^a   Seemüller, Erich ^a  

^a Inst fur Pflanzenschutz im Obstbau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fus gene; Mollicutes; Phylogeny; Ribosomal protein gene; Tuf gene

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G; ELONGATION FACTOR TU;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLICUTES; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0345129988     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00552-6     Document Type: Article

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