Detection and organization of atrazine-degrading genetic potential of seventeen bacterial isolates belonging to divergent taxa indicate a recent common origin of their catabolic functions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-86

  Devers, Marion ^a   Azhari, Najoi El ^a   Kolic, Nikolina Udikovic ^b   Martin Laurent, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Atrazine; atz genes; Biodegradation; Insertion sequences; trz genes

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM; TAXONOMY;

ATRAZINE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POLAROMONAS; SINORHIZOBIUM SP.;

EID: 34347401225     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00792.x     Document Type: Article

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