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A quantitative account of genomic island acquisitions in prokaryotes
BACKGROUND: Microbial genomes do not merely evolve through the slow accumulation of mutations, but also, and often more dramatically, by taking up new DNA in a process called horizontal gene transfer. These innovation leaps in the acquisition of new traits can take place via the introgression of sin...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3176501/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21864345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-427 |