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Integrons: mobilizable platforms that promote genetic diversity in bacteria.
Trends in microbiology - 1 Jul 2007
Boucher Yan, Labbate Maurizio, Koenig Jeremy E, Stokes H W
Abstract excerpt
Integrons facilitate the capture of potentially adaptive exogenous genetic material by their host genomes. It is now clear that integrons are not limited to the clinical contexts in which they were originally discovered because approximately 10% of bacterial genomes that have been partially or co...
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