A novel class of small repetitive DNA sequences in Enterococcus faecalis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-201

  Venditti, Rossella ^a   De Gregorio, Eliana ^a   Silvestro, Giustina ^a   Bertocco, Tullia ^a   Salza, Maria Francesca ^a   Zarrilli, Raffaele ^a,b   Di Nocera, Pier Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genome analysis; Microbiological diagnostic; Miniature insertion sequence; Palindromic DNA; Stem loop structures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 34248997150     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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