Versatile genetic tool box for the crenarchaeote Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Wagner, Michaela ^a   van Wolferen, Marleen ^a   Wagner, Alexander ^a   Lassak, Kerstin ^a   Meyer, Benjamin H ^a   Reimann, Julia ^a   Albers, Sonja Verena ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Deletion mutant; Expression system; Genetics; In frame deletion; Sulfolobus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867081093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00214     Document Type: Article

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