Bigger is not always better: Transmission and fitness burden of ~1MB Pseudomonas syringae megaplasmid pMPPla107

Plasmid

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 16-25

  Romanchuk, Artur ^a   Jones, Corbin D ^a   Karkare, Kedar ^a   Moore, Autumn ^b   Smith, Brian A ^b   Jones, Chelsea ^b   Dougherty, Kevin ^b   Baltrus, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness cost; HGT; Megaplasmid; Plasmid transfer; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID CULTURE; MEGAPLASMID; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SINORHIZOBIUM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; TRANSMISSION; VIRULENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; PLANT DISEASES; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84901231977     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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