The diversity-generating benefits of a prokaryotic adaptive immune system

Nature

Volumn 532, Issue 7599, 2016, Pages 385-388

  Van Houte, Stineke ^a   Ekroth, Alice K E ^a   Broniewski, Jenny M ^a   Chabas, Hélène ^a,b   Ashby, Ben ^a,c   Bondy Denomy, Joseph ^d   Gandon, Sylvain ^b   Boots, Mike ^a,c   Paterson, Steve ^e   Buckling, Angus ^a   Westra, Edze R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

COEVOLUTION; DISINFECTION; DNA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MUTATION; PARASITE; PROKARYOTE; SYNERGISM; VIRUS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VIRUS; BACTERIOPHAGE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; VIROLOGY;

PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC FITNESS; POINT MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84964433283     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17436     Document Type: Article

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