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Tales of conjugation and sex pheromones

  • Clewell D
Mobile Genetic Elements (2011) 1(1) 38-54
DOI: 10.4161/mge.1.1.15409
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This review covers highlights of the author's experience becoming and working as a plasmid biologist. The account chronicles a progression from studies of ColE1 DNA in Escherichia coli to Gram-positive bacteria with an emphasis on conjugation in enterococci. It deals with gene amplification, conjugative transposons and sex pheromones in the context of bacterial antibiotic resistance.

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Clewell, D. B. (2011). Tales of conjugation and sex pheromones. Mobile Genetic Elements, 1(1), 38–54. https://doi.org/10.4161/mge.1.1.15409

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