Open AccessSelfish, promiscuous and sometimes useful: how mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations
Author(s) -
Matthieu Haudiquet,
Jorge A. Moura de Sousa,
Marie Touchon,
Eduardo P. C. Rocha
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
philosophical transactions - royal society. biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2021.0234
Subject(s) - horizontal gene transfer , mobile genetic elements , biology , evolutionary biology , genetics , adaptation (eye) , genome , gene , population , computational biology , neuroscience , demography , sociology