Monitoring the dissemination of the broad-host-range plasmid pB10 in sediment microcosms by quantitative PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 378-382

  Bonot, Sébastien ^a,b   Merlin, Christophe ^b  

^a CIRSEE   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK UP; BACTERIAL GENOMES; DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MATRIXES; GENETIC ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR TOOLS; PLASMID DNA; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SEDIMENT MICROCOSMS;

MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

PRIMER DNA;

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; DNA; GENOME; HOST RANGE; MICROCOSM; MONITORING; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; METAGENOMICS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 76149123916     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01125-09     Document Type: Article

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