In situ detection of high levels of horizontal plasmid transfer in marine bacterial communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2670-2675

  Dahlberg, Cecilia ^a   Bergström, Maria ^a   Hermansson, Malte ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Box 462   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TRANSFER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPRESSOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0031869638     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2670-2675.1998     Document Type: Article

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