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Addiction systems antagonize bacterial adaptive immunity

CRISPR-Cas systems provide adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements, but employment of this resistance mechanism is often reported with a fitness cost for the host. Whether or not CRISPR-Cas systems are important barriers for the horizontal spread of conjugative plasmids, which play a cruci...

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Autores principales: van Sluijs, Lisa, van Houte, Stineke, van der Oost, John, Brouns, Stan JJ, Buckling, Angus, Westra, Edze R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30834930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnz047

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