Diverse broad-host-range plasmids from freshwater carry few accessory genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 7684-7695

  Brown, Celeste J ^a,b   Sen, Diya ^a,b,d   Yano, Hirokazu ^a,e   Bauer, Matthew L ^a   Rogers, Linda M ^a   Van der Auwera, Geraldine A ^c,f   Top, Eva M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BACTERIAL ADAPTATIONS; FRESHWATER HABITATS; FRESHWATER SOURCES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANTIBIOTICS; DNA; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENES; WATER;

ACCESSORIES;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; EFFLUENT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASMID;

BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRESH WATER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84886671563     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02252-13     Document Type: Article

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