The vlhA loci of Mycoplasma synoviae are confined to a restricted region of the genome

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 935-940

  Allen, Joanne L ^a   Noormohammadi, Amir H ^a   Browning, Glenn F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE PROBE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RESTRICTION SITE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; LECTINS; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE; PSEUDOGENES; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE;

EID: 15844423812     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27109-0     Document Type: Article

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