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Bacteriophage-Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer: Transduction

  • Schneider C
Springer International Publishing, (2017), 1-42
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40598-8_4-1
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Abstract

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can create tremendous genetic diversity in organisms, especially those which reproduce asexually. The three classical mechanisms for HGT in prokaryotes are transformation, conjugation, and transduction. Historically, conjugation and...

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Schneider, C. L. (2017). Bacteriophage-Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer: Transduction. In Bacteriophages (pp. 1–42). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40598-8_4-1

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