Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICEs): What They Do and How They Work
Horizontal gene transfer plays a major role in microbial evolution, allowing microbes to acquire new genes and phenotypes. Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs, a.k.a. conjugative transposons) are modular mobile genetic elements integrated into a host genome and are passively propagated during...
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Annual Reviews,
2017-03-16T19:48:01Z.
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