Plasmids of carotenoid-producing Paracoccus spp. (Alphaproteobacteria) - Structure, diversity and evolution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Maj, Anna ^a   Dziewit, Lukasz ^a   Czarnecki, Jakub ^a   Wlodarczyk, Miroslawa ^a   Baj, Jadwiga ^a   Skrzypczyk, Grazyna ^a   Giersz, Dorota ^a   Bartosik, Dariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CAROTENOID; PLASMID VECTOR; TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS; PARACOCCUS AESTUARII; PARACOCCUS HAEUNDAENSIS; PARACOCCUS MARCUSII; PLASMID; PLASTICITY; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAROTENOIDS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PARACOCCUS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84892601578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080258     Document Type: Article

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