Eco-evolutionary significance of domesticated retroelements in microbial genomes
Abstract Since the first discovery of reverse transcriptase in bacteria, and later in archaea, bacterial and archaeal retroelements have been defined by their common enzyme that coordinates diverse functions. Yet, evolutionary refinement has produced distinct retroelements across the tree of microbi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2022-02-01
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| Series: | Mobile DNA |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-022-00262-6 |