Article
Natural horizontal transfer of a naphthalene dioxygenase gene between bacteria native to a coal tar-contaminated field site.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jun 1997
Herrick J B, Stuart-Keil K G, Ghiorse W C, Madsen E L
Abstract excerpt
Horizontal transfer of genes responsible for pollutant biodegradation may play a key role in the evolution of bacterial populations and the adaptation of microbial communities to environmental contaminants. However, field evidence for horizontal gene transfer between microorganisms has traditiona...
Topics
- Alleles
- Bacteria
- Base Sequence
- Biodegradation, Environmental
- Chromosome Mapping
- Coal Tar
- DNA Primers
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Dioxygenases
- Ecosystem
- Environmental Pollutants
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Multienzyme Complexes
- Oxygenases
- Phylogeny
- Plasmids