The chromosomal accommodation and domestication of mobile genetic elements

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-29

  Touchon, Marie ^a,b   Bobay, Louis Marie ^a,b,c   Rocha, Eduardo PC ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE; CHROMOSOMAL ACCOMMODATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETICS; HOST; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; CHROMOSOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

TRANSPOSON;

CHROMOSOMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOMICS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EID: 84907976382     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.09.010     Document Type: Review

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