Fewer essential genes in mycoplasmas than previous studies suggest

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 311, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-55

  Dybvig, Kevin ^a,b   Lao, Ping ^a   Jordan, David S ^b   Simmons, Warren L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

essential genes; gene duplication; minitransposon; mycoplasma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DUPLICATION; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 77956402254     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02078.x     Document Type: Article

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