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Reassortment of CRISPR repeat-spacer loci in Sulfolobus islandicus.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2013
Held Nicole L, Herrera Alfa, Whitaker Rachel J
Abstract excerpt
Virus-host interactions are a key factor shaping population dynamics of microbial species. The CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune system confers sequence-specific immunity to viral infection and has the potential to dramatically shape coevolutionary interactions between viruses and their microbial hosts. To assess evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR loci, we have sampled a population of closely related Sulfolobus islandicus...
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