"Trade-off" in Antarctic bacteria: Limnetic psychrotrophs concede multiple enzyme expressions for multiple metal resistance

BioMetals

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 821-828

  De Souza, Maria Judith ^a   Loka Bharathi, P A ^a   Nair, Shanta ^a   Chandramohan, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Antarctic freshwater; Antibiotic resistance; Multiple metal resistance; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ICE; LAKE WATER; MERCURY; METAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANTARCTICA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME RELEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIMNETIC SPECIES; NONHUMAN;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; METALS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 35649023191     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10534-006-9045-8     Document Type: Article

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