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Dna Transfer In The Soil Bacterium Rhodococcus, Jaimin Maheshbhai Kapadia
Dna Transfer In The Soil Bacterium Rhodococcus, Jaimin Maheshbhai Kapadia
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Gene transfer plays an important role in bacterial evolution. Especially in an under explored species like Rhodococcus, a type of bacteria found in the soil. Rhodococcus has several applications in the pharmaceutical industry and in the production of antibiotics. Rhodococcus possess several unique sets of properties which makes it beneficial to have a reliable method of producing mutants of Rhodococcus. The goal of the experiment was to find an efficient way of forming Rhodococcus colonies with kanamycin resistant genes. The project began from an unexpected observation from an earlier experiment with Rhodococcus strain MTM3W5.2. where I attempted to transform this …