Prevalence and diversity of insertion sequences in the genome of Bacillus thuringiensis YBT-1520 and comparison with other Bacillus cereus group members

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-16

  Qiu, Ning ^a   He, Jin ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Cheng, Gang ^b   Li, Mingshun ^a   Sun, Ming ^a   Yu, Ziniu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus group; Bacillus thuringiensis; evolution; insertion sequences; Southern hybridization

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

EID: 77955253105     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02033.x     Document Type: Article

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