The IncP-1 plasmid backbone adapts to different host bacterial species and evolves through homologous recombination

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Norberg, Peter ^a   Bergström, Maria ^a   Jethava, Vinay ^b   Dubhashi, Devdatt ^b   Hermansson, Malte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INCP 1 PLASMID BACKBONE; MARINE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79953790350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1267     Document Type: Article

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