Gene essentiality testing in mycobacterium smegmatis using specialized transduction

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 465, Issue , 2008, Pages 325-336

  Bhatt, Apoorva ^a   Jacobs Jr , William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetamidase; Conditional expression; Essentiality testing; Phages; Specialized transduction

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 84555190537     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-207-6_22     Document Type: Article

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