Fate of plasmid-bearing, luciferase marker gene tagged bacteria after feeding to the soil microarthropod Onychiurus fimatus (Collembola)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-135

  Hoffmann, Andrea ^a   Thimm, Torsten ^a   Tebbe, Christoph C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collembola; Escherichia coli; Feeding activity; Luciferase; Plasmid transfer; Soil bacteria

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL ADHESION; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; INSECT; LIFE CYCLE; MARKER GENE; MOLTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ONYCHIURUS FIMATUS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 0032880875     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(99)00046-X     Document Type: Article

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