Fitness drift of an atrazine-degrading population under atrazine selection pressure

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 676-684

  Devers, Marion ^a   Rouard, Nadine ^a   Martin Laurent, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

ATRAZINE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP. ADP;

EID: 38549154927     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01490.x     Document Type: Article

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