Novel assay to measure the plasmid mobilizing potential of mixed microbial communities

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Klümper, Uli ^a   Droumpali, Ariadni ^a   Dechesne, Arnaud ^a   Smets, Barth F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Horizontal gene transfer; Permissiveness; plasmid mobilization; Plasmid transfer; RP4; RSF1010

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID TRANSFER DETECTION; PLASMID MOBILIZATION POTENTIAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; STEREOMICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84920697665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00730     Document Type: Article

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