The conjugative plasmid of a bean-nodulating Sinorhizobium fredii strain is assembled from sequences of two Rhizobium plasmids and the chromosome of a Sinorhizobium strain

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cervantes, Laura ^a   Bustos, Patricia ^a   Girard, Lourdes ^a   Santamaría, Rosa Isela ^a   Dávila, Guillermo ^a   Vinuesa, Pablo ^a   Romero, David ^a   Brom, Susana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BEAN; CONJUGATIVE TRANSFER; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SYMBIOSIS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGUME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPAIN;

GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII;

BACTERIAL DNA;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FABACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SPAIN;

EID: 79959390412     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-149     Document Type: Article

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