Biodegradation by Members of the Genus Rhodococcus: Biochemistry, Physiology, and Genetic Adaptation

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-29

  Larkin, Michael J ^a   Kulakov, Leonid A ^a   Allen, Christopher C R ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEHALOGENASE; ETHER; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; OXYGENASE; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; CATABOLISM; CHEMICAL BOND; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME SIZE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RHODOCOCCUS; TAXONOMY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OXYGENASES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHODOCOCCUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

RHODOCOCCUS;

EID: 33745605155     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2164(06)59001-X     Document Type: Review

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