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CRISPR distribution within the Escherichia coli species is not suggestive of immunity-associated diversifying selection.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 May 2011
Touchon Marie, Charpentier Sophie, Clermont Olivier, Rocha Eduardo P C, Denamur Erick, Branger Catherine
Abstract excerpt
In order to get further insights into the role of the clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) in Escherichia coli, we analyzed the CRISPR diversity in a collection of 290 strains, in the phylogenetic framework of the strains represented by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The set included 263 natural E. coli isolates exposed to various environments and isolated over a 20-year...
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