Escherichia coli genes affecting recipient ability in plasmid conjugation: Are there any?

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pérez Mendoza, Daniel ^a,b   de la Cruz, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC SCREENING; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; R PLASMID; RECIPIENT; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 60849100544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-71     Document Type: Article

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