Shifts in the host range of a promiscuous plasmid through parallel evolution of its replication initiation protein

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1568-1580

  Sota, Masahiro ^a,b   Yano, Hirokazu ^a   M Hughes, Julie ^a   Daughdrill, Gary W ^a,c   Abdo, Zaid ^a   Forney, Larry J ^a   Top, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Osaka City University Medical School   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

copy number; evolution; host range; plasmid; replication; stability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HELICASE; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST RANGE; INCOMPATIBILITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PLASMID; PROTEIN; SPECIALIZATION; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPLICON; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SHEWANELLA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEWANELLA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS;

EID: 78649446843     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.72     Document Type: Article

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