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Bacterial transformation buffers environmental fluctuations through the reversible integration of mobile genetic elements
2019-02-24
Abstract excerpt
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is known to promote the spread of genes in bacterial communities, which is of primary importance to human health when these genes provide resistance to antibiotics. Among the main HGT mechanisms, natural transformation stands out as being widespread and encoded by the bacterial core genome. From an evolutionary perspective, transformation is often viewed as a mean to generate genetic...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1ca41586-f68a-55c4-b3bb-dc7676fe2b92
- DOI
- 10.1101/557462