Identification of bacterial plasmids based on mobility and plasmid population biology

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 936-956

  Garcillán Barcia, Maria Pilar ^a   Alvarado, Andrés ^a   De la Cruz, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Plasmid classification; Plasmid conjugation; Plasmid population genetics; Plasmid replication; Relaxase

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONJUGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; INTEGRON; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 79960966271     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00291.x     Document Type: Review

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