Large-scale transposon mutagenesis of Mycoplasma pulmonis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-76

  French, Christopher T ^a,c   Lao, Ping ^c   Loraine, Ann E ^b,c   Matthews, Brian T ^c   Yu, Huilan ^c   Dybvig, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 45149084024     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06262.x     Document Type: Article

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