5 Studying Essential Genes: Generating and Using Promoter Fusions and Conditional Alleles

Methods in Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 79-102

  Stark, Michael JR ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247575805     PISSN: 05809517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0580-9517(06)36005-9     Document Type: Review

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