Insight into microevolution of Yersinia pestis by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.

<h4>Background</h4>Yersinia pestis, the pathogen of plague, has greatly influenced human history on a global scale. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR), an element participating in immunity against phages' invasion, is composed of short repeated sequenc...

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Main Authors: Yujun Cui, Yanjun Li, Olivier Gorgé, Mikhail E Platonov, Yanfeng Yan, Zhaobiao Guo, Christine Pourcel, Svetlana V Dentovskaya, Sergey V Balakhonov, Xiaoyi Wang, Yajun Song, Andrey P Anisimov, Gilles Vergnaud, Ruifu Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18612419/pdf/?tool=EBI