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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Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2024-12-01
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Series: | mSystems |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00568-24 |
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