Broad-host-range plasmids from agricultural soils have IncP-1 backbones with diverse accessory genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 7975-7983

  Sen, Diya ^a   Van der Auwera, Geraldine A ^b   Rogers, Linda M ^a   Thomas, Christopher M ^c   Brown, Celeste J ^a   Top, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; CATABOLIC PATHWAY; DEGRADATION OF POLLUTANTS; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENOME SEQUENCES; INSERTION SEQUENCES; INSERTION SITE; MERCURY RESISTANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS; SPECTINOMYCIN;

AMIDES; ANTIBIOTICS; BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; DNA; HEAVY METALS; HERBICIDES; MERCURY (METAL); SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

GENES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST RANGE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHYLOGENETICS; PLASMID; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; INDEL MUTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; INDEL MUTATION; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORWAY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOIL;

NORWAY;

EID: 83055188823     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05439-11     Document Type: Article

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