In and out—contribution of natural transformation to the shuffling of large genomic regions

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2017, Pages 22-29

  Blokesch, Melanie ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA STRUCTURE; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PROKARYOTE; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

DNA;

DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSFORMATION COMPETENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 85018303268     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.04.001     Document Type: Review

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