Detecting rare gene transfer events in bacterial populations

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Nielsen, Kaare M ^a,b   Bøhn, Thomas ^a,b   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b GenØk Centre for Biosafety   (Norway)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Biosafety; DNA uptake; Gmo; Lateral or horizontal gene transfer; Modeling; Monitoring; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSAFETY; CELL DIVISION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPATIBILITY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; METAPOPULATION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REVIEW; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

EID: 84893695336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00415     Document Type: Review

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