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Genetic structure of natural populations of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobium meliloti.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 1990
Eardly B D, Materon L A, Smith N H, Johnson D A, Rumbaugh M D, Selander R K
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The genetic structure of populations of the symbiotic nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium Rhizobium meliloti was examined by analysis of electrophoretically demonstrable allelic variation in 14 metabolic, presumably chromosomal, enzyme genes. A total of 232 strains were examined, most of which were isolated from southwest Asia, where there is an unsurpassed number of indigenous host species for R. meliloti. The...
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