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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |