Mobilizable narrow host range plasmids as natural suicide vectors enabling horizontal gene transfer among distantly related bacterial species.

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Summary

The mobilizable NHR plasmids may play a much more important role in horizontal gene transfer than previously thought, and may act as natural suicide vectors promoting the spread of diverse genetic information among evolutionarily distinct bacterial species.

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2012-01-01
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Plasmid, Biology, Gammaproteobacteria, Genetics, Integrases

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