Plasmids with a chromosome-like role in rhizobia

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1317-1326

  Landeta, Cristina ^a   Dávalos, Araceli ^a   Cevallos, Miguel Ángel ^a   Geiger, Otto ^a   Brom, Susana ^a   Romero, David ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SYNTENY;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 79952382560     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01184-10     Document Type: Article

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