MITEAba12, a Novel Mobile Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Element Identified in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 and Its Prevalence across the Moraxellaceae Family

One of the most important weapons in the armory of Acinetobacter is its impressive genetic plasticity, facilitating rapid genetic mutations and rearrangements as well as integration of foreign determinants carried by mobile genetic elements. Of these, IS are considered one of the key forces shaping...

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Main Authors: Felise G. Adams, Melissa H. Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-02-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphereDirect.00028-19