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Conjugation genes are common throughout the genus Rickettsia and are transmitted horizontally
Rickettsia are endosymbionts of arthropods, some of which are vectored to vertebrates where they cause disease. Recently, it has been found that some Rickettsia strains harbour conjugative plasmids and others encode some conjugative machinery within the bacterial genome. We investigated the distribu...
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The Royal Society
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817303/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19608593 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0875 |