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Precise excision and self-integration of a composite transposon as a model for spontaneous large-scale chromosome inversion/deletion of the Staphylococcus haemolyticus clinical strain JCSC1435WATANABE, Shinya; ITO, Teruyo; MORIMOTO, Yuh et al.Journal of bacteriology. 2007, Vol 189, Num 7, pp 2921-2925, issn 0021-9193, 5 p.Article

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