A quantitative account of genomic island acquisitions in prokaryotes
A quantitative account of genomic island acquisitions in prokaryotes
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England: BioMed Central Ltd
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Microbial genomes do not merely evolve through the slow accumulation of mutations, but also, and often more dramatically, by taking up new DNA in a process called horizontal gene transfer. These innovation leaps in the acquisition of new traits can take place via the introgression of single genes, but also through the acquisition of large gene clus...
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A quantitative account of genomic island acquisitions in prokaryotes
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1471-2164
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1471-2164
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10.1186/1471-2164-12-427
