High incidence of plasmids in marine Vibrio species isolated from Mai Po Nature Reserve of Hong Kong

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1661-1668

  Zhang, Ruifu ^a,b   Pan, Li ^a   Zhao, Zhenye ^a,c   Gu, Ji Dong ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shenzhen Hong Kong Inst of Indust Education Research Environment Engineering Technique Co Ltd   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Distribution; Diversity; Mai Po Nature Reserve; Plasmid; Replication; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; DNA; GENE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASMID; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE SEQUENCE; HONG KONG; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIODIVERSITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HONG KONG; METALS, HEAVY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CHINA; HONG KONG; MAI PO NATURE RESERVE; NEW TERRITORIES;

VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84864871908     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-012-0939-7     Document Type: Article

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