The ability of soil bacteria to receive the conjugative IncP1 plasmid, pKJK10, is different in a mixed community compared to single strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-100

  de la Cruz Perera, Claudia I ^a,b   Ren, Dawei ^a   Blanchet, Marine ^a,c   Dendooven, Luc ^b   Marsch, Rodolfo ^b   Sørensen, Søren J ^a   Burmølle, Mette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

Author keywords

Bacterial community; Conjugation; Horizontal gene transfer; Host range; Soil bacteria

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OCHROBACTRUM; OCHROBACTRUM RHIZOHAERAE; PLASMID; PLASMID PKJK10; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RNA GENE; SOIL MICROFLORA; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS RHIZOPHILA;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; OCHROBACTRUM; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; OCHROBACTRUM; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STENOTROPHOMONAS RHIZOPHILA;

EID: 84870955560     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12036     Document Type: Article

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