The mycosphere constitutes an arena for horizontal gene transfer with strong evolutionary implications for bacterial-fungal interactions

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 516-526

  Zhang, Miaozhi ^a   Pereira e Silva, Michele de C ^a   Chaib De Mares, Maryam ^a   van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Mycosphere; Plasmids

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLASMID;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PLASMIDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84908359937     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12350     Document Type: Article

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