Patchy distribution of flexible genetic elements in bacterial populations mediates robustness to environmental uncertainty

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 361-371

  Heuer, Holger ^a,b   Abdo, Zaid ^c   Smalla, Kornelia ^b  

^a JKI   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial population heterogeneity; Broad host range plasmids; Evolvability; Flexible genome; Mobile genetic elements; Robustness

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HERITABILITY; HETEROGENEITY; HOST RANGE; PATCHINESS; PLASMID;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; INHERITANCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; PLASMIDS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 49249097625     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00539.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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