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Transposon-insertion Sequencing as a Tool to Elucidate Bacterial Colonization Factors in a Burkholderia gladioli Symbiont of Lagria villosa Beetles
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転置のためのチューニング:ストワウェイMITEの多動性の基礎にある分子決定因子

Guojun Yang1, Dawn Holligan Nagel, Cédric Feschotte

  • 1Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 12, 2009
PubMed
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ミニチュア・インバーテッド・リピート・トランスポーザブル・エレメント (MITEs) は,自律的要素からトランスポーザースを採取することで増幅します. この研究は,抑圧的なモチーフが欠如し,内部配列を有しているため,トランポジションが強化された米MITEを特定しています.

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