Plasmid partition mechanisms

Microbiology Spectrum

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Baxter, Jamie C ^a   Funnell, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; METABOLISM; PLASMID; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL DIVISION; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84937779693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21650497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.PLAS-0023-2014     Document Type: Article

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