Accounting for mating pair formation in plasmid population dynamics

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 711-719

  Zhong, Xue ^a   Krol,, Jarosław E ^a   Top, Eva M ^a   Krone, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Conjugation; Detachment; Mating pair

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PAIR BOND; PLASMID; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL ADHESION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77649337971     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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