Erwinia amylovora CRISPR elements provide new tools for evaluating strain diversity and for microbial source tracking.

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) comprise a family of short DNA repeat sequences that are separated by non repetitive spacer sequences and, in combination with a suite of Cas proteins, are thought to function as an adaptive immune system against invading DNA. The n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gayle C McGhee, George W Sundin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3409226?pdf=render