[Why so rare if so essentiel: the determinants of the sparse distribution of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacterial genomes].

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CRISPR-Cas (Cluster of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) systems confer bacteria and archaea an adaptative immunity against phages and other invading genetic elements playing an important role in bacterial evolution. However, despite the protection they generate and high rate of horizontal transfer, less than 50% of bacterial genomes harbor a CRISPR-Cas system. As a comparison, 90% of archaea...

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