A marine plasmid hitchhiking vast phylogenetic and geographic distances
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905878116
Abstract: Significance Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the movement of genetic material between organisms other than by reproduction, which plays an important role in bacterial evolution. Often, mobile genetic elements such as plasmids are involved in… read more here.
Keywords: evolution; hgt; plasmid hitchhiking; plasmid ... See more keywords