Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) carrying catabolic genes

Management of Microbial Resources in the Environment

Volumn 9789400759312, Issue , 2013, Pages 167-214

  Shintani, Masaki ^a,b   Nojiri, Hideaki ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catabolic plasmids; Horizontal gene transfer (HGT); Mobile genetic elements (MGEs); Transposons; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931323365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5931-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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