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Conjugal properties of the Sinorhizobium meliloti plasmid mobilome.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Sept 2008
Pistorio Mariano, Giusti María A, Del Papa María F, Draghi Walter O, Lozano Mauricio J, Tejerizo Gonzalo Torres, Lagares Antonio
Abstract excerpt
The biology and biochemistry of plasmid transfer in soil bacteria is currently under active investigation because of its central role in prokaryote adaptation and evolution. In this work, we examined the conjugal properties of the cryptic plasmids present in a collection of the N(2)-fixing legume-symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti. The study was performed on 65 S. meliloti isolates recovered from 25 humic soils of...
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