Plasmid introduction in metal-stressed, subsurface-derived microcosms: Plasmid fate and community response

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 4087-4097

  Smets, Barth F ^a   Morrow, Jayne B ^a   Pinedo, Catalina Arango ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GENES; GROUNDWATER;

MICROCOSMS;

MICROORGANISMS;

CADMIUM; CARBON; GROUND WATER; NICKEL;

PLASMID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CZC GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; HEAVY METAL POISONING; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROCOSM; MICROFLORA; NCC GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL POLLUTION; TRAFA GENE;

BACTERIA; CADMIUM; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METALS, HEAVY; NICKEL; PLASMIDS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038154308     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.7.4087-4097.2003     Document Type: Article

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