Spontaneous zygogenesis, a wide-ranging mating process in bacteria

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 671-678

  Gratia, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Heterospecific matings; Salmonella enterica; Serratia marcescens; Shigella flexneri

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; MATING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEROTYPE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS ZYGOGENESIS;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CROSSES, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 36749088172     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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