ArticlePLoS biology2016
Using Sex to Cure the Genome.
Article in PLoS biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Horizontal Gene Transfer as a Source of Conflict and Cooperation in Prokaryotes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Genome Comparisons of Wild Isolates of Caulobacter crescentus Reveal Rates of Inversion and Horizontal Gene Transfer.Current microbiology · 2019Article
- Transformation Asymmetry and the Evolution of the Bacterial Accessory Genome.Molecular biology and evolution · 2018Article
- Ionizing Radiation, Higher Plants, and Radioprotection: From Acute High Doses to Chronic Low Doses.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Review
- Trajectories and Drivers of Genome Evolution in Surface-Associated Marine Phaeobacter.Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
- Mechanisms of gene flow in archaea.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2017Review
- Impact of Cropping Systems, Soil Inoculum, and Plant Species Identity on Soil Bacterial Community Structure.Microbial ecology · 2017Article
- The antimicrobial resistance crisis: management through gene monitoring.Open biology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The diversification of prokaryotes is accelerated by their ability to acquire DNA from other genomes. However, the underlying processes also facilitate genome infection by costly mobile genetic elements. The discovery that cells can uptake DNA by natural transformation was instrumental to the birth of molecular biology nearly a century ago. Surprisingly, a new study shows that this mechanism could efficiently cure the genome of mobile elements acquired through previous sexual exchanges.
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