Heterogeneous selection in a spatially structured environment affects fitness tradeoffs of plasmid carriage in pseudomonads

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3189-3197

  Slater, Frances R ^a,b   Bruce, Kenneth D ^b   Ellis, Richard J ^c   Lilley, Andrew K ^a,b   Turner, Sarah L ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE ENCODING; MERCURY (METAL); MICROBIOLOGY;

NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PSEUDOMONADS; SURFACE AREA;

BACTERIA;

MERCURIC CHLORIDE; PLASMID VECTOR;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROGENEITY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROSCOPY; PLASMID; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 44249091885     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02383-07     Document Type: Article

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