True reversal of Mu integration

T K Au1, Shailja Pathania, Rasika M Harshey

  • 1Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1095, USA.

The EMBO Journal
|July 30, 2004
PubMed

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