Selective Pressures to Maintain Attachment Site Specificity of Integrative and Conjugative Elements

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Menard, Kayla L ^a   Grossman, Alan D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTEGRATIVE AND CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; NONHUMAN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES;

EID: 84880790228     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003623     Document Type: Article

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