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TY - JOUR
T1 - Related plasmids found in an English Lake district stream
AU - Pickup, R. W.
PY - 1989/11/30
Y1 - 1989/11/30
N2 - An examination of the distribution of plasmids carried by copper-tolerant bacteria from a freshwater stream revealed that >60% carried at least one plasmid, and that large plasmids (>100 kb) were predominant. A total of 10 copper-tolerant bacteria carrying the 54-kb plasmid, pFBA20, were detected at four sampling sites within the stream and, on consecutive occasions, at one site throughout a 1-year sampling period. The detection of this plasmid provides evidence that related plasmids can, under no apparent selective pressure, survive and disperse within the bacterial community. Two of the isolates that carried pFBA20 were phenotypically distinguishable. This would suggest that pFBA20 is transmissible.
AB - An examination of the distribution of plasmids carried by copper-tolerant bacteria from a freshwater stream revealed that >60% carried at least one plasmid, and that large plasmids (>100 kb) were predominant. A total of 10 copper-tolerant bacteria carrying the 54-kb plasmid, pFBA20, were detected at four sampling sites within the stream and, on consecutive occasions, at one site throughout a 1-year sampling period. The detection of this plasmid provides evidence that related plasmids can, under no apparent selective pressure, survive and disperse within the bacterial community. Two of the isolates that carried pFBA20 were phenotypically distinguishable. This would suggest that pFBA20 is transmissible.
U2 - 10.1007/BF02075809
DO - 10.1007/BF02075809
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0024852798
VL - 18
SP - 211
EP - 220
JO - Microbial Ecology
JF - Microbial Ecology
SN - 0095-3628
IS - 3
ER -