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Conjugal properties of the Sinorhizobium meliloti plasmid mobilome.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Sept 2008
Pistorio Mariano, Giusti María A, Del Papa María F, Draghi Walter O, Lozano Mauricio J, Tejerizo Gonzalo Torres, Lagares Antonio
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The biology and biochemistry of plasmid transfer in soil bacteria is currently under active investigation because of its central role in prokaryote adaptation and evolution. In this work, we examined the conjugal properties of the cryptic plasmids present in a collection of the N(2)-fixing legume...
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