Sociobiological control of plasmid copy number in bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Watve, Mukta M ^a   Dahanukar, Neelesh ^a   Watve, Milind G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HOST SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIMULATION; SOCIOBIOLOGY; ALGORITHM; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; CELL DIVISION; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DOSAGE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77949708443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009328     Document Type: Article

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