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Targeted bacterial immunity buffers phage diversity.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2011
Haerter Jan O, Trusina Ala, Sneppen Kim
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria have evolved diverse defense mechanisms that allow them to fight viral attacks. One such mechanism, the clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) system, is an adaptive immune system consisting of genetic loci that can take up genetic material from invasive elem...
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