Plasmids isolated from marine sediment microbial communities contain replication and incompatibility regions unrelated to those of known plasmid groups

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 888-895

  Sobecky, Patricia A ^a   Mincer, Tracy J ^a   Chang, Michelle C ^a   Helinski, Donald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEAVY METAL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATABOLISM; DNA PROBE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REPLICATION; HYBRIDIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE;

EID: 0031030474     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.888-895.1997     Document Type: Article

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