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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Main Authors: Grossman, Alan Davis (Contributor), Johnson, Christopher M (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Grossman Alan D (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Annual Reviews, 2017-03-27T17:42:47Z.
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