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Erwinia amylovora CRISPR elements provide new tools for evaluating strain diversity and for microbial source tracking.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
McGhee Gayle C, Sundin George W
Abstract excerpt
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) comprise a family of short DNA repeat sequences that are separated by non repetitive spacer sequences and, in combination with a suite of Cas proteins, are thought to function as an adaptive immune system against invading DNA. The number of CRISPR arrays in a bacterial chromosome is variable, and the content of each array can differ in both...
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