Broad host range plasmids can invade an unexpectedly diverse fraction of a soil bacterial community

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 934 - 945
• Main Authors: Klümper, Uli, Riber, Leise, Dechesne, Arnaud, Sannazzarro, Analia, Hansen, Lars H, Sørensen, Søren J, Smets, Barth F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 17.03.2015; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 14/19; 14/63; 38/23; 42/35; 42/47; 631/158/855; 631/181/457; 631/326/2565/855; 631/326/41/2529; 96/31; Actinobacteria; Actinobacteria - genetics; Antibiotic resistance; Bacteria; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Conjugation, Genetic; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Firmicutes; Gene Transfer, Horizontal; Genes, Bacterial; Host Specificity; Life Sciences; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Original; original-article; Plasmids - genetics; Proteobacteria - genetics; Soil Microbiology

Conjugal plasmids can provide microbes with full complements of new genes and constitute potent vehicles for horizontal gene transfer. Conjugal plasmid transfer is deemed responsible for the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance among microbes. While broad host range plasmids are known to transfer t...