Genes required for mycobacterial growth defined by high density mutagenesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-84

  Sassetti, Christopher M ^a   Boyd, Dana H ^b   Rubin, Eric J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLINICAL PATHWAY; DEGENERATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TRANSPOSONS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0345701347     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03425.x     Document Type: Article

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