Spatial structure and nutrients promote invasion of IncP-1 plasmids in bacterial populations

ISME Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1024-1039

  Fox, Randal E ^a   Zhong, Xue ^a   Krone, Stephen M ^a   Top, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Invasion; Mathematical model; Plasmid; Spatial structure Introduction

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; PLASMID; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GLUCOSE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 53849090616     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2008.53     Document Type: Article

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