Table 6.

Transposons employed in selected oral microbiome species.

Species	Transposon	In vivo/vitro	Reference
Library Screens
A. actinomycetemcomitans	Tn5	In vivo	(Kolodrubetz and Kraig 1994)
	IS903	In vivo	(Thomson et al. 1999)
	Mariner	In vivo	(Ding and Tan 2017)
A. oris	Tn5	In vitro	(Mashimo et al. 2013)
E. faecalis	Tn917	In vivo	(Garsin et al. 2004)
	Mariner	In vivo	(Kristich et al. 2008)
F. nucleatum	Tn5	In vitro	(Coppenhagen-Glazer et al. 2015)
L. casei	IS1223	In vivo	(Licandro-Seraut et al. 2012)
P. micra	Mariner	In vitro	(Higashi et al. 2022)
P. gingivalis	Tn4351	In vivo	(Hoover et al. 1992)
	Tn4400	In vivo	(Chen et al. 2000)
S. cristatus	Tn916	In vivo	(Correia et al. 1995)
S. gordonii	Tn4001	In vivo	(Lunsford 1995)
	Tn916	In vivo	(Whittaker et al. 1996)
	Tn917	In vivo	(Loo et al. 2003)
S. mutans	MudE	In vivo	(Kuramitsu 1987)
	Tn916	In vivo	(Caufield and Shah 1995)
	Tn917	In vivo	(Cvitkovitch et al. 2000)
	Iss1	In vivo	(Zhang and Biswas 2009)
	Mariner	In vivo	(Nilsson et al. 2014)
	Tn4001	In vivo	(Jalal et al. 2015)
T. denticola	Mariner	In vivo	(Yang et al. 2008)
V. parvula	Mariner	In vivo	(Bechon et al. 2020)
Tn-seq
A. actinomycetemcomitans	Tn10	In vivo	(Stacy et al. 2016)
	Mariner	In vivo	(Narayanan et al. 2017)
E. faecalis	Mariner	In vivo	(Dale et al. 2018)
P. gingivalis	Mariner	In vivo	(Klein et al. 2012)
S. mutans	Mariner	In vitro	(Shields et al. 2018)