The resolution and regeneration of a cointegrate plasmid reveals a model for plasmid evolution mediated by conjugation and oriT site-specific recombination

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3305-3318

  Wang, Pengxia ^a   Zhang, Chunyi ^a   Zhu, Yiguang ^a   Deng, Yun ^a   Guo, Suxia ^a   Peng, Donghai ^a   Ruan, Lifang ^a   Sun, Ming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84888870474     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12177     Document Type: Article

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