Discovery of a conjugative megaplasmid in Bifidobacterium breve

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 166-176

  Bottacini, Francesca ^a   Motherway, Mary O'Connell ^a,b   Casey, Eoghan ^b   McDonnell, Brian ^b   Mahony, Jennifer ^b   Ventura, Marco ^c   van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

A-STABLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DNA TRANSFER; GENOME SEQUENCING; HUMAN GUTS; IN-SILICO CHARACTERIZATIONS; MEGAPLASMID; REPRESENTATIVE STRAIN;

GENES;

CHROMOSOME; DNA; GENOME; HOMOLOGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLASMID;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMID;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84917694525     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02871-14     Document Type: Article

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