RepABC-based replication systems of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii TA1 plasmids: Incompatibility and evolutionary analyses

Plasmid

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 53-66

  Mazur, Andrzej ^a   Majewska, Bogna ^a   Stasiak, Grazyna ^a   Wielbo, Jerzy ^a   Skorupska, Anna ^a  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Incompatibility; Plasmid; RepABC; Rhizobium leguminosarum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; INC ALPHA GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARS GENE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; REPABC GENE; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM TRIFOLII; RHIZOBIUM VICIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TRIFOLIUM;

RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. TRIFOLII; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE 3841;

EID: 80052965740     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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