Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution
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- 1 March 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
- Vol. 33 (2) , 376-393
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00136.x
Abstract
Bacterial genomes evolve through mutations, rearrangements or horizontal gene transfer. Besides the core genes encoding essential metabolic functionsKeywords
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