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Hijackers, hitchhikers, or co-drivers? The mysteries of microbial mobilizable genetic elements

2024-04-26

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Mobile genetic elements shape microbial gene repertoires and population dynamics, but their mechanisms of horizontal transmission are often unknown. Recent results reveal that many, possibly most, bacterial mobile genetic elements require helper elements to transfer between (or within) genomes. We refer to these non-autonomous, albeit mobile, elements as Hitcher Genetic Elements (hitchers or HGEs). They could cons...

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Literature Corpus work: ac812f11-4343-596d-a3bb-06c791203be8
DOI: 10.32942/x2r89m

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