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Evolution of the CRISPR-Cas9 defence system in <i>Mycoplasma gallisepticum</i> following colonization of a novel bird host
2023-03-14
Abstract excerpt
CRISPR-Cas systems are bacterial defences that target bacteriophages and mobile genetic elements. How these defences evolve in novel host environments remains, however, unknown. We studied the evolution of the CRISPR-Cas system in Mycoplasma gallisepticum , a bacterial pathogen of poultry that jumped into a passerine host ∼30 years ago. Over the decade following the host shift, all isolates displayed a functional...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fcc6572c-2531-5330-9772-3f8abef9cb4a
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.03.14.532377
