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Bacterial sex in dental plaque

Genes are transferred between bacteria in dental plaque by transduction, conjugation, and transformation. Membrane vesicles can also provide a mechanism for horizontal gene transfer. DNA transfer is considered bacterial sex, but the transfer is not parallel to processes that we associate with sex in...

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Autores principales: Olsen, Ingar, Tribble, Gena D., Fiehn, Nils-Erik, Wang, Bing-Yan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23741559
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jom.v5i0.20736

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