Ecological drivers of CRISPR immune systems

ABSTRACT CRISPR-Cas is the only known adaptive immune system of prokaryotes. It is a powerful defense system against mobile genetic elements such as bacteriophages. While CRISPR-Cas systems can be found throughout the prokaryotic tree of life, they are distributed unevenly across taxa and environmen...

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Main Authors: Wei Xiao, J. L. Weissman, Philip L. F. Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-12-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00568-24
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