Social behavior and decision making in bacterial conjugation

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Koraimann, Günther ^a   Wagner, Maria A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial conjugation; Conjugative plasmids (CP); Gene regulatory networks; Horizontal gene transfer (HGT); Integrative conjugative elements (ICE); Mobile genetic elements

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DECISION MAKING; DNA TRANSFER; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIALIZATION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOFILM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUORUM SENSING; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLASMIDS; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84910072410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00054     Document Type: Review

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