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Ecological Factors That Affect the Survival, Establishment, Growth and Genetic Recombination of Microbes in Natural Habitats

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Molecular Biology, Pathogenicity, and Ecology of Bacterial Plasmids

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Despite the remarkable advances in the isolation, analysis, reconstruction,and methods of introducing new genes into organisms, the ultimate fate of natural and manipulated genetic material is dependent on the survival, establishment, and growth of the organismal vectors (usually microbes) that house the genetic material in the natural habitats into which the vectors are introduced. Survival, establishment, and growth are, in turn, dependent on the genetic constitution of the microbes and on the physical (temperature, pressure, electromagnetic radiation, surfaces, spatial relations), chemical (carbonaceous substrates, ironganic nutrients, growth factors, ionic composition, available water, pH, oxidation-reduction potential, gaseous composition, toxicants), and biological (characteristics of and positive and negative interactions between microbes) factors of the various habitats (Fig. 1). Limitations of space preclude a detailed discussion of and an extensive bibliography to these ecological factors and to the genetical aspects of this report. Consequently, reference is made to reviews wherever possible.

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Stotzky, G., Krasovsky, V.N. (1981). Ecological Factors That Affect the Survival, Establishment, Growth and Genetic Recombination of Microbes in Natural Habitats. In: Levy, S.B., Clowes, R.C., Koenig, E.L. (eds) Molecular Biology, Pathogenicity, and Ecology of Bacterial Plasmids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3983-0_4

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