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Volume 2, Issue 2March/April 2012
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Plants homozygous for deletions 25 and E106 (25DD andE106DD) show a necrotic phenotype. Leaves of 2-weeks-old plants are shown. For more information, see the...Continue reading
Issue Highlights
Ac/Ds -induced chromosomal rearrangements in rice genomes- The diversity of inducible and constitutively expressed
erm (C) genes and association to different replicon types in staphylococci plasmids - Eukaryote to gut bacteria transfer of a glycoside hydrolase gene essential for starch breakdown in plants
- Virus-host swinging party in the oceans: Incorporating biological complexity into paradigms of antagonistic coexistence
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Meetings of Interest
SMBE 2012
June 23-26, 2012
Dublin, Ireland
Society for General Microbiology AUTUMN conference 2012
September 3-4, 2012
University of Warwick, Cantry, UK
International Plasmid Biology Conference 2012
September 12-16, 2012
Santander, Spain
Biophysical Aspects of Type IV Secretion Systems
September 17-23, 2012
University of the Basque Country, Leioa/Bilbao, Spain
Editor-in-Chief
Adam P. Roberts
University College London
Eastman Dental Institute
London, UK
adam.roberts@ucl.ac.uk
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Evolutionary, ecological and biotechnological perspectives on plasmids resident in the human gut mobile metagenome. Lesley A. Ogilvie, Sepinoud Firouzmand and Brian V. Jones. Bioengineered Bugs 3(1). January/February 2012.
Sensitive quantitative analysis of murine LINE1 DNA methylation using high resolution melt analysis. Newman et al. Epigenetics 7(1); Jan 2012.
Paramutation of tobacco transgenes by small RNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing Khaitova LC, Fojtova M, Krizova K, Lunerova J, Fulnecek J, Depicker A, Kovarik A. Epigenetics 6(5); May 2011.
