Modelling the spatial dynamics of plasmid transfer and persistence

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2803-2816

  Krone, Stephen M ^a   Lu, Ruinan ^a   Fox, Randal ^a   Suzuki, Haruo ^a   Top, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOFILM; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE SEGREGATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34547868946     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/004531-0     Document Type: Article

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