Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 174-182

  Mojica, Francisco J M ^a   Díez Villaseñor, César ^a   García Martínez, Jesús ^a   Soria, Elena ^a  

^a Depto Fisiol Genet Y Microbiol   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteriophages; Conjugative plasmids; CRISPR; DNA repeats; Lateral gene transfer; Pathogenicity; Prokaryotic evolution

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROKARYOTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; INTRON; METHANOBACTERIUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SULFOLOBUS;

PROKARYOTA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 16444385662     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0046-3     Document Type: Article

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