Long-term dynamics of catabolic plasmids introduced to a microbial community in a polluted environment: A mathematical model

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 211-221

  Miki, Takeshi ^a   Ueki, Masaya ^a,b   Kawabata, Zen'Ichiro ^b   Yamamura, Norio ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioaugmentation; Competition; Conjugation; Horizontal gene transfer; Modeling

Indexed keywords

XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

BIODEGRADATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASMID; XENOBIOTICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CATABOLISM; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DENSITY GRADIENT; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFLORA; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 35348994372     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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