Development of a novel system for isolating genes involved in predator-prey interactions using host independent derivatives of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Medina, Adrian A ^a   Shanks, Robert M ^b   Kadouri, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; BIOFILM; CELL GROWTH; GENE ISOLATION; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FIMBRIA; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BDELLOVIBRIO; BIOFILMS; CHEMOTAXIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 41649112997     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-33     Document Type: Article

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