Transposable genetic elements and plasmid evolution
- 1 October 1976
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 263 (5580), 731-734
- https://doi.org/10.1038/263731a0
Abstract
Transposable elements of DNA that are structurally defined and genetically discrete units may have an important role in the evolution of bacterial plasmids. Recombination occurring at the termini of such elements can result in the joining together of unrelated DNA segments that lack extensive nucleotide sequence homology. Transposable elements serve as novel biological switches capable of turning on and off the expression of nearby genes as a consequence of their insertion into or excision from plasmid genomes.This publication has 80 references indexed in Scilit:
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