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Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 723604, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/723604
Research Article

Characterization of Plasmid pPO1 from the Hyperacidophile Picrophilus oshimae

Angel Angelov,1 Jörn Voss,2 and Wolfgang Liebl1

1Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München, Emil-Ramann-Straße 4, Weihenstephan, 85354 Freising, Germany
2Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Grisebachstrasse 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

Received 1 June 2011; Accepted 21 July 2011

Academic Editor: Matthias Hess

Copyright © 2011 Angel Angelov et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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