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Vesiduction: the fourth way of HGT
Author(s) -
Soler Nicolas,
Forterre Patrick
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
environmental microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.954
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1462-2920
pISSN - 1462-2912
DOI - 10.1111/1462-2920.15056
Subject(s) - transduction (biophysics) , gene transfer , extracellular , dna , horizontal gene transfer , transformation (genetics) , extracellular vesicles , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , biology , intracellular , genetics , chemistry , genome , biophysics
Summary Besides the canonical gene transfer mechanisms transformation, transduction and conjugation, DNA transfer involving extracellular vesicles is still under appreciated. However, this widespread phenomenon has been observed in the three domains of life. Here, we propose the term ‘Vesiduction’ as a fourth mode of intercellular DNA transfer.