Mercury resistance is encoded by transferable giant linear plasmids in two Chesapeake Bay Streptomyces strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3383-3388

  Ravel, Jacques ^a   Schrempf, Hildgund ^b   Hill, Russell T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031682339     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3383-3388.1998     Document Type: Article

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