Widespread dissemination of class 1 integron components in soils and related ecosystems as revealed by cultivation-independent analysis

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Jechalke, Sven ^a   Schreiter, Susanne ^a   Wolters, Birgit ^a,b   Dealtry, Simone ^a   Heuer, Holger ^a   Smalla, Kornelia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biofilter; Digestates; Incp 1 korb; Inti1; Manured soil and rhizosphere; Qace; Qace 1; Sul1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE BACTERIUM; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84893683515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00420     Document Type: Article

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