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Gene-Swapping Mediates Host Specificity among Symbiotic Bacteria in a Beneficial Symbiosis

Environmentally acquired beneficial associations are comprised of a wide variety of symbiotic species that vary both genetically and phenotypically, and therefore have differential colonization abilities, even when symbionts are of the same species. Strain variation is common among conspecific hosts...

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Autores principales: Chavez-Dozal, Alba A., Gorman, Clayton, Lostroh, C. Phoebe, Nishiguchi, Michele K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25014649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101691