Evolution of Plasmid Mobility: Origin and Fate of Conjugative and Nonconjugative Plasmids
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DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac115
Abstract: Abstract Conjugation drives the horizontal transfer of adaptive traits across prokaryotes. One-fourth of the plasmids encode the functions necessary to conjugate autonomously, the others being eventually mobilizable by conjugation. To understand the evolution of plasmid… read more here.
Keywords: gene repertoires; mobility; plasmid mobility; evolution plasmid ... See more keywords