Natural horizontal transfer of a naphthalene dioxygenase gene between bacteria native to a coal tar-contaminated field site

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2330-2337

  Herrick, J B ^a,b   Stuart Keil, K G ^a   Ghiorse, W C ^a   Madsen, E L ^a  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL TAR; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NAPHTHALENE; OXYGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLLUTION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0030977550     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.6.2330-2337.1997     Document Type: Article

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