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Integron diversity in heavy-metal-contaminated mine tailings and inferences about integron evolution.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2004
Nemergut D R, Martin A P, Schmidt S K
Abstract excerpt
Integrons are horizontal gene transfer (HGT) systems containing elements necessary for site-specific recombination and expression of foreign DNA. The overall phylogenetic distribution of integrons and range of genes that can be transferred by integrons are unknown. This report contains an explora...
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