Intergeneric transfer of conjugative and mobilizable plasmids harbored by Escherichia coli in the gut of the soil microarthropod Folsomia candida (Collembola)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2652-2659

  Hoffmann, Andrea ^a,e   Thimm, Torsten ^a   Dröge, Marcus ^b   Moore, Edward R B ^c   Munch, Jean Charles ^a,f   Tebbe, Christoph C ^a,d  

^a Institute für Bodenbiologie   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; COLLEMBOLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0031815972     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2652-2659.1998     Document Type: Article

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