Conjugation mediates transfer of the LI.LtrB group II intron between different bacterial species

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1459-1469

  Belhocine, Kamila ^a   Plante, Isabelle ^a   Cousineau, Benoit ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MODEL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGNUM; RETROPOSON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTRONS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EUKARYOTA; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 1542511810     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.03923.x     Document Type: Article

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