Bacterial diversity losses: A potential extracellular driving mechanism involving the molecular ecological function of hydrophobic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
The DNA transformation is vital to the horizontal gene transfer (HGT). The low-efficiency transformation of bare plasmid exposed to hydrophobic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) decreases the gene transfer level, and is possibly related to the loss of bacterial diversity at present. PAHs have...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Biotechnology Reports |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215017X1400054X |