Molecular characterization of a DNA fragment harboring the replicon of pBMB165 from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Huang, Junyan ^a   Guo, Suxia ^a   Mahillon, Jacques ^b   Van der Auwera, Géraldine A ^b   Wang, Li ^a   Han, Dongmei ^a   Yu, Ziniu ^a   Sun, Ming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN FAMILY; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR TENEBRIONIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33750490389     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-270     Document Type: Article

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