Multiple independent horizontal transfers of informational genes from bacteria to plasmids and phages: implications for the origin of bacterial replication machinery
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 35 (1), 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01692.x
Abstract
In contrast to the universality of other central genetic mechanisms, the replication machinery of Bacteria is clearly different from those of Archaea and Eukaryotes. A large number of bacterial genes...Keywords
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