Laboratory-Scale Evidence for Lightning-Mediated Gene Transfer in Soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3440-3444

  Demanèche, Sandrine ^a   Bertolla, Franck ^a   Buret, François ^b   Nalin, Renaud ^c   Sailland, Alain ^d   Auriol, Philippe ^b   Vogel, Timothy M ^a   Simonet, Pascal ^a  

^a University of Lyon   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^c Libragen   (France)

^d SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LIGHTNING; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID;

CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LIGHTNING; PLASMIDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0035434108     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3440-3444.2001     Document Type: Article

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