Genetic elements in the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 131-140

  Zillig, Wolfram ^a,c   Arnold, Hans Peter ^a   Holz, Ingelore ^a   Prangishvili, David ^a   Schweier, Anja ^a   Stedman, Kenneth ^a   She, Qunxin ^b   Phan, Hien ^b   Garrett, Roger ^b   Kristjansson, Jakob K ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Archaea; Conjugative plasmid; Crenarchaeota; Satellite virus; Sulfolobus; Vectors; Virus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PLASMID; SATELLITE DNA; TRANSPOSON;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUSELLOVIRIDAE; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, VIRAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SULFOLOBUS; VIRUSES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA; SATELLITE VIRUSES; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 18144447330     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050052     Document Type: Review

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