An investigation of horizontal transfer of feed introduced DNA to the aerobic microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract of rats

BACKGROUND: Horizontal gene transfer through natural transformation of members of the microbiota of the lower gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of mammals has not yet been described. Insufficient DNA sequence similarity for homologous recombination to occur has been identified as the major barrier to int...

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Autores principales: Nordgård, Lise, Brusetti, Lorenzo, Raddadi, Noura, Traavik, Terje, Averhoff, Beate, Nielsen, Kaare Magne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22463741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-170

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22463741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-170

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