Self-synthesizing transposons: unexpected key players in the evolution of viruses and defense systems.

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Published in Curr Opin Microbiol on February 01, 2016

Authors

Mart Krupovic1, Eugene V Koonin2

Author Affiliations

1: Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. Electronic address: krupovic@pasteur.fr.
2: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. Electronic address: koonin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

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