Dealing with the Evolutionary Downside of CRISPR Immunity: Bacteria and Beneficial Plasmids

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Jiang, Wenyan ^a   Maniv, Inbal ^a   Arain, Fawaz ^b   Wang, Yaying ^b   Levin, Bruce R ^b   Marraffini, Luciano A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT CAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84884696268     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003844     Document Type: Article

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