An Evolutionary Hot Spot: The pNGR234b Replicon of Rhizobium sp. Strain NGR234

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 535-542

  Streit, W R ^a   Schmitz, R A ^a   Perret, X ^b   Staehelin, C ^b   Deakin, W J ^b   Raasch, C ^a   Liesegang, H ^a   Broughton, W J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; LEGUME; NGR234 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMID; PNGR234B GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSPOSASES;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ERWINIA; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; NEGIBACTERIA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMA;

EID: 0346655239     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.2.535-542.2004     Document Type: Article

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