Molecular characterization of Brucella abortus chromosome II recombination

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 6130-6136

  Tsoktouridis, Georgios ^a   Merz, Christian A ^a   Manning, Simon P ^a   Giovagnoli Kurtz, Renée ^a   Williams, Leanne E ^a   Mujer, Cesar V ^a   Hagius, Sue ^b   Elzer, Philip ^b   Redkar, Rajendra J ^a,c   Patra, Guy ^a,d   DelVecchio, Vito G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Schott Glass Technologies   (United States)

^d Vital Probes Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS 16M; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; BRUCELLA SUIS 1330; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 10744221618     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.20.6130-6136.2003     Document Type: Article

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