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Using Sex to Cure the Genome

The diversification of prokaryotes is accelerated by their ability to acquire DNA from other genomes. However, the underlying processes also facilitate genome infection by costly mobile genetic elements. The discovery that cells can uptake DNA by natural transformation was instrumental to the birth...

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Autor principal: Rocha, Eduardo P. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26987049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002417