Host range diversification within the IncP-1 plasmid group

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART11, 2013, Pages 2303-2315

  Yano, Hirokazu ^a,c   Rogers, Linda M ^a   Knox, Molly G ^a   Heuer, Holger ^b   Smalla, Kornelia ^b   Brown, Celeste J ^a   Top, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; HOST RANGE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SPHINGOBIUM JAPONICUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA REPLICATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOST SPECIFICITY; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84886704081     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.068387-0     Document Type: Article

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