Competition favours reduced cost of plasmids to host bacteria

ISME Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 761-769

  Haft, Rembrandt J F ^a   Mittler, John E ^a   Traxler, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Microbial ecology; Parasite evolution; Plasmid biology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; COCULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PLASMID;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PLASMIDS;

EID: 67949083649     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2009.22     Document Type: Article

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