Plasmids and prophages in Baltic Sea bacterioplankton isolates

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 567-575

  Leitet, Cecilia ^a   Riemann, Lasse ^a   Hagström, Åke ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; DNA; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; HOST RANGE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASMID;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33645869874     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315406013488     Document Type: Article

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