Is the bacterial chromosome a mobile genetic element?

An outcome of phage infection, lateral transduction, has been shown to mobilize chromosomal genes between bacterial cells at rates that exceed those of mobile genetic elements such as plasmids. Does this mean that the bacterial chromosome should be considered a mobile genetic element?

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Nature Communications

• Publication date

  2021-11-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-26758-yPMID 34737310PMCID 8568949
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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