Archaeal mobile dna

Mobile DNA II

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 1060-1073

  Redder, Peter ^a   Faguy, David ^b   Brugger, Kim ^a   She, Qunxin ^a   Garrett, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Conjugative plasmids; Crenarchaeal viruses; Euryarchaeal viruses; Introns; Mobile dna elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 85158056146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555817954.ch46     Document Type: Chapter

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