Assessing the probability of detection of horizontal gene transfer events in bacterial populations

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a   Bøhn, Thomas ^b,c   Nielsen, Kaare Magne ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GenØk Centre for Biosafety   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Biosafety; DNA uptake; GMO; Lateral or horizontal gene transfer; Modeling; Monitoring; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875626143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00027     Document Type: Article

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