The low incidence of diversity-generating retroelements in sequenced genomes
The insertion of a retrotransposable element is usually associated with adverse or, at best, neutral effects on the host. Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are the first elements that seem to offer a direct selective advantage to their phage or prokaryote host by exact replacement of a short...
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Landes Bioscience
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575424/ |