The coevolution of gene mobility and sociality in bacteria
Bacteria are social organisms which participate in multiple cooperative and group behaviours. They moreover have peculiar genetic systems, as they often bear mobile genetic elements like plasmids, molecular symbionts that are the cause of widespread horizontal gene transfer and play a large role in...
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Université René Descartes - Paris V
2014
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Online Access: | http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00993436 http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/99/34/36/PDF/vd_dimitriu_tatiana.pdf |