Monitoring the conjugal transfer of plasmid RP4 in activated sludge and in situ identification of the transconjugants

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-17

  Geisenberger, Otto ^a   Ammendola, Aldo ^a   Christensen, Bjarke B ^b   Molin, Søren ^b   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^a   Eberl, Leo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Green fluorescent protein; Plasmid RP4; Plasmid transfer

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

AEROMONAS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENETIC MARKERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEWAGE;

EID: 0032900709     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00114-7     Document Type: Article

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