A Conjugative 38 kB Plasmid Is Present in Multiple Subspecies of Xylella fastidiosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Rogers, Elizabeth E ^a   Stenger, Drake C ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALIFORNIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PRUNUS; XYLELLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84871310725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052131     Document Type: Article

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