Host range, stability and compatibility of broad host-range-plasmids and a shuttle vector in moderately halophilic bacteria. Evidence of intrageneric and intergeneric conjugation in moderate halophiles

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-181

  Vargas, Carmen ^a   Coronado, Maria J ^a   Ventosa, Antonio ^a   Nieto, Joaquin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloning vectors; Conjugation; Moderate halophiles; Plasmid transfer

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLONING VECTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH CURVE; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; HOST; MATING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOHALOBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS ELONGATA; VIBRIO;

EID: 0030757319     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(97)80063-X     Document Type: Article

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