Transfer of the drug-resistance transposon Tn5 to Rhizobium

J. E. Beringer; Jim Beynon; A. V. Buchanan-Wollaston; Andrew Johnston

doi:10.1038/276633a0

Keywords

Transposable elementGeneticsBiologyPlasmidRepliconRhizobiumGeneDNAInsert (composites)Genome

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John Innes Centre GB

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Year: 1978
Type: article
Volume: 276
Issue: 5688
Pages: 633-634
Citations: 466
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                                    J. E. Beringer, 
                                
                                    Jim Beynon, 
                                
                                    A. V. Buchanan-Wollaston
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1978). 
                            Transfer of the drug-resistance transposon Tn5 to Rhizobium. 
                            Nature
                            , 276
                            (5688)
                            , 633-634.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/276633a0
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/276633a0