Archaea
Volume 2 (2009), Issue 4, Pages 211-219
doi:10.1155/2009/428489
Research Article

A Gateway platform for functional genomics in Haloferax volcanii: deletion of three tRNA modification genes

Basma El Yacoubi, Gabriela Phillips, Ian K. Blaby, Crysten E. Haas, Yulien Cruz, Jamie Greenberg, and Valérie de Crécy-Lagard

Department of Microbiology and Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

Received 24 September 2008; Accepted 21 January 2009

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