Distributive conjugal transfer: New insights into horizontal gene transfer and genetic exchange in mycobacteria

Microbiology Spectrum

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-19

  Derbyshire, Keith M ^a   Gray, Todd A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 84958966235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21650497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.mgm2-0022-2013     Document Type: Article

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