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Genetic elements in the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus

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This minireview summarizes what is known about genetic elements in the archaeal crenarchaeotal genus Sulfolobus, including recent work on viruses, cryptic plasmids, a novel type of virus satellite plasmids or satellite viruses, and conjugative plasmids (CPs), mostly from our laboratory. It does not discuss IS elements and transposons.

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  1. Max Planck Institut für Biochemie, Am Klopferspitz 18a, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany Tel. +49-89-85782223; Fax +49-89-85782728 e-mail: zillig@biochem.mpg.de, , , , , , DE

    W. Zillig, Hans Peter Arnold, Ingelore Holz, David Prangishvili, Anja Schweier & Kenneth Stedman

  2. Institute of Molecular Biology, Copenhagen University, Solvgade 83 H DK-1307, Copenhagen K, Denmark, , , , , , DK

    Qunxin She, Hien Phan & Roger Garrett

  3. University of Iceland, Keldnaholt, IS 112, Reykjavik, Iceland, , , , , , IS

    Jakob K. Kristjansson

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Received: January 22, 1998 / Accepted: February 16, 1998

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Zillig, W., Arnold, H., Holz, I. et al. Genetic elements in the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus . Extremophiles 2, 131–140 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007920050052

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