Variation in permissiveness for broad-host-range plasmids among genetically indistinguishable isolates of Dickeya sp. from a small field plot

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 190-196

  Heuer, Holger ^a   Ebers, Jonas ^a   Weinert, Nicole ^a   Smalla, Kornelia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Bacterial population heterogeneity; Broad host range plasmids; Erwinia chrysanthemi; Evolvability; Plasmid ecology

Indexed keywords

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIVERGENCE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HETEROGENEITY; HOST RANGE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; POTATO;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DICKEYA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77953221161     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00880.x     Document Type: Article

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