Monitoring and modeling horizontal gene transfer

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1110-1114

  Nielsen, Kaare M ^a,b   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b University of Tromsö   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; BIOSAFETY; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

BACTERIA; CONDITION MONITORING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS;

GENE TRANSFER;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOSAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC MODEL; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOIL MICROFLORA; TIME; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; WILD TYPE;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SCREENING; INTESTINES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4444299868     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1006     Document Type: Review

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