Evidence for the role of horizontal transfer in generating pVT1, a large mosaic conjugative plasmid from the clam pathogen, vibrio tapetis

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Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Erauso, Gaël ^a,d   Lakhal, Fatma ^b,e   Bidault Toffin, Adeline ^a   Le Chevalier, Patrick ^c   Bouloc, Philippe ^b   Paillard, Christine ^a   Jacq, Annick ^b  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BREST   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLAM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; REPLICON; SHEWANELLA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO TAPETIS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIVALVE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOSAICISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIBRIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM PROFUNDUM; SHEWANELLA SP.; VENERUPIS (RUDITAPES) PHILIPPINARUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO SP.; VIBRIO TAPETIS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIBRIONACEAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIVALVIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOSAICISM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

EID: 79951519548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016759     Document Type: Article

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