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Conjugal rites of mycobacteria

Nature Genetics volume 34, pages 3–4 (2003)Cite this article

Gene products involved in the naturally occurring process of bacterial conjugation are usually encoded on plasmids. A new study shows that in Mycobacterium smegmatis, a unique conjugative transfer is mediated by multiple cis-acting sequences present on the chromosome and requires host recombination functions.

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