Chromosomal constraints in Gram-positive bacteria revealed by artificial inversions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 511-522

  Campo, N ^a   Dias, M J ^a   Daveran Mingot, M L ^a   Ritzenthaler, P ^a   Le Bourgeois, P ^a  

^a UMR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0942279509     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03847.x     Document Type: Article

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