Selective Pressures to Maintain Attachment Site Specificity of Integrative and Conjugative Elements
Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are widespread mobile genetic elements that are usually found integrated in bacterial chromosomes. They are important agents of evolution and contribute to the acquisition of new traits, including antibiotic resistances. ICEs can excise from the chromosome...
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2013-08-21T15:22:37Z.
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