The Tn916/Tn1545 family of conjugative transposons

Bacterial Integrative Mobile Genetic Elements

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 153-170

  Ciric, Lena ^a   Jasni, Azmiza ^a   de Vries, Lisbeth Elvira ^b,c   Agersø, Yvonne ^b   Mullany, Peter ^a   Roberts, Adam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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DOI: 10.1201/9780367813925-9     Document Type: Chapter

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