Experimental methods for assaying natural transformation and inferring horizontal gene transfer

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 395, Issue , 2005, Pages 491-520

  Ray, Jessica L ^a   Nielsen, Kaare M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC SELECTION; GREENHOUSE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACINETOBACTER; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ECOSYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 19944369059     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(05)95026-X     Document Type: Article

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