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Intragenomic conflicts with plasmids and chromosomal mobile genetic elements drive the evolution of natural transformation within species

2023-11-06

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Natural transformation is the only mechanism of genetic exchange controlled by the recipient bacteria. We quantified its rates in 1282 strains of the human pathogens Legionella pneumophila (Lp) and Acinetobacter baumannii (Ab) and found that transformation rates evolve by large quick changes as a jump process across six orders of magnitude. Close to half of the strains are non-transformable in standard condition...

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Literature Corpus work: 37e6cf99-f828-58b9-9533-6380644b13d6
DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.06.565790

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