Entrapment vectors - How to capture a functional transposable element

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 139-144

  Sołyga, Aleksandra ^a   Bartosik, Dariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Entrapment vector; Insertion sequence; Transposition; Transposon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; LETHAL GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 6044250186     PISSN: 01371320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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