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Costs and benefits of natural transformation in Acinetobacter baylyi

BACKGROUND: Natural transformation enables acquisition of adaptive traits and drives genome evolution in prokaryotes. Yet, the selective forces responsible for the evolution and maintenance of natural transformation remain elusive since taken-up DNA has also been hypothesized to provide benefits suc...

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Autores principales: Hülter, Nils, Sørum, Vidar, Borch-Pedersen, Kristina, Liljegren, Mikkel M., Utnes, Ane L. G., Primicerio, Raul, Harms, Klaus, Johnsen, Pål J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28202049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-017-0953-2