Distribution and characteristics of plasmid mobilizers in aquatic and soil environments and activated sludge

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-70

  Inoue, Daisuke ^a   Murashige, Katsushi ^a   Sei, Kazunari ^a   Soda, Satoshi ^a   Ike, Michihiko ^a   Fujita, Masanori ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Incompatibility group P; Plasmid mobilizer; Pseudomonad

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREVUNDIMONAS; BREVUNDIMONAS VESICULARIS; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CHRYSEOMONAS LUTEOLA; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; JAPAN; LAKE; MORAXELLA; NONHUMAN; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POND; PSEUDOMONAS; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; RIVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; SEWAGE;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 34248147506     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.53.67     Document Type: Article

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