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SUBMITTER: Humphrey S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8575950 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Humphrey Suzanne S Fillol-Salom Alfred A Quiles-Puchalt Nuria N Ibarra-Chávez Rodrigo R Haag Andreas F AF Chen John J Penadés José R JR
Nature communications 20211108 1
It is commonly assumed that the horizontal transfer of most bacterial chromosomal genes is limited, in contrast to the frequent transfer observed for typical mobile genetic elements. However, this view has been recently challenged by the discovery of lateral transduction in Staphylococcus aureus, where temperate phages can drive the transfer of large chromosomal regions at extremely high frequencies. Here, we analyse previously published as well as new datasets to compare horizontal gene transfe ...[more]