Belt and braces: Two escape ways to maintain the cassette reservoir of large chromosomal integrons.
Integrons are adaptive devices that capture, stockpile, shuffle and express gene cassettes thereby sampling combinatorial phenotypic diversity. Some integrons called sedentary chromosomal integrons (SCIs) can be massive structures containing hundreds of cassettes. Since most of these cassettes are n...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2024-04-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011231&type=printable |