Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution

Bacterial genomes evolve through mutations, rearrangements or horizontal gene transfer. Besides the core genes encoding essential metabolic functions, bacterial genomes also harbour a number of accessory genes acquired by horizontal gene transfer that might be beneficial under certain environmental...

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Autores principales: Juhas, Mario, van der Meer, Jan Roelof, Gaillard, Muriel, Harding, Rosalind M, Hood, Derek W, Crook, Derrick W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00136.x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00136.x

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