Natural microbial communities supporting the transfer of the IncP-1β plasmid pB10 exhibit a higher initial content of plasmids from the same incompatibility group

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Bellanger, Xavier ^a   Guilloteau, Hélène ^a   Breuil, Bérengère ^a   Merlin, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Community permissiveness; IncP 1; pB10; Plasmid transfer; Superinfection immunity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84920571504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00637     Document Type: Article

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