Direct detection and quantification of horizontal gene transfer by using flow cytometry and gfp as a reporter gene

Current Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-133

  Sørensen, Søren J ^a   Sørensen, Anders H ^a   Hansen, Lars H ^a   Oregaard, Gunnar ^a   Veal, Duncan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL VIABILITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GFP GENE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

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

EID: 0041970965     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3978-0     Document Type: Article

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