Seeking completeness in bacterial mutant hunts

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-311

  Salama, Nina R ^a   Manoil, Colin ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESSENTIAL GENE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; GENOME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33744538801     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2006.03.002     Document Type: Review

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