Timothy D Read1, Steven L Salzberg, Mihai Pop

  • 1The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA., Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 11, 2002
PubMed
まとめ

バチルス・アントラシスの全ゲノム配列解析により,60種類の新しい遺伝子マーカーが特定されました. これらのマーカーは,さまざまな炭菌の単離体を効果的に区別し,感染症のアウトブレイク調査を支援しました.

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