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Networking in microbes: conjugative elements and plasmids in the genus Alteromonas.
BMC genomics - 5 Jan 2017
López-Pérez Mario, Ramon-Marco Nieves, Rodriguez-Valera Francisco
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: To develop evolutionary models for the free living bacterium Alteromonas the genome sequences of isolates of the genus have been extensively analyzed. However, the main genetic exchange drivers in these microbes, conjugative elements (CEs), have not been considered in detail thus far. In this work, CEs have been searched in several complete Alteromonas genomes and their sequence studied to understand...
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