No evidence of inhibition of horizontal gene transfer by CRISPR-Cas on evolutionary timescales

ISME Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2021-2027

  Gophna, Uri ^a,b   Kristensen, David M ^c   Wolf, Yuri I ^c   Popa, Ovidiu ^d   Drevet, Christine ^e   Koonin, Eugene V ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ESTIMATION METHOD; FITNESS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; TIMESCALE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; TEMPERATURE; VIRUSES;

EID: 84939574199     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.20     Document Type: Article

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