The quest for the minimal bacterial genome

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2016, Pages 216-224

  Martínez García, Esteban ^a   de Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOMES; BACTERIAL GENOMES; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; COMPLETE GENOMES; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; DNA SEGMENTS;

GENES;

GENOMIC DNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME REDUCTION; GENOME SIZE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES AVERMITILIS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO NATRIEGENS; BACTERIAL GENE; CLONING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CLONING, ORGANISM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84988421888     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.09.001     Document Type: Review

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