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A marine plasmid hitchhiking vast phylogenetic and geographic distances

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays an important role in bacterial evolution and serves as a driving force for bacterial diversity and versatility. HGT events often involve mobile genetic elements like plasmids, which can promote their own dissemination by associating with adaptive traits in the ge...

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Autores principales: Petersen, Jörn, Vollmers, John, Ringel, Victoria, Brinkmann, Henner, Ellebrandt-Sperling, Claire, Spröer, Cathrin, Howat, Alexandra M., Murrell, J. Colin, Kaster, Anne-Kristin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6789725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31548387
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905878116