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Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element?
An outcome of phage infection, lateral transduction, has been shown to mobilize chromosomal genes between bacterial cells at rates that exceed those of mobile genetic elements such as plasmids. Does this mean that the bacterial chromosome should be considered a mobile genetic element?
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8568949/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34737310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26758-y |
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spelling | pubmed-85689492021-11-15 Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element? Hall, James P. J. Nat Commun Comment An outcome of phage infection, lateral transduction, has been shown to mobilize chromosomal genes between bacterial cells at rates that exceed those of mobile genetic elements such as plasmids. Does this mean that the bacterial chromosome should be considered a mobile genetic element? Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8568949/ /pubmed/34737310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26758-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Comment Hall, James P. J. Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element? |
title | Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element? |
title_full | Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element? |
title_fullStr | Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element? |
title_full_unstemmed | Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element? |
title_short | Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element? |
title_sort | is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element? |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8568949/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34737310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26758-y |
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