Environmentally co-occurring mercury resistance plasmids are genetically and phenotypically diverse and confer variable context-dependent fitness effects

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5008-5022

  Hall, James P J ^a   Harrison, Ellie ^a   Lilley, Andrew K ^b   Paterson, Steve ^c   Spiers, Andrew J ^d   Brockhurst, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARYLSULFATASE; MERCURY; SUCROSE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OPERON; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; TRANSPOSON;

ARYLSULFATASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MERCURY; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SUCROSE;

EID: 84955737907     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12901     Document Type: Article

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