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1. On the trail of ancient killers.

Author

Gibbons A

Subjects
Bacterial Load, Bone and Bones microbiology, DNA, Bacterial history, DNA, Bacterial isolation & purification, Denmark, Female, Genome, Bacterial, Genome, Human, History, Medieval, Humans, Leprosy history, Mycobacterium leprae isolation & purification, Plague history, Plague microbiology, Polymerase Chain Reaction standards, Sequence Alignment, Yersinia pestis genetics, Yersinia pestis isolation & purification, DNA, Bacterial genetics, Leprosy microbiology, Mycobacterium leprae genetics, Tooth microbiology
Published
2013
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2. Bacterial sex: playing voyeurs 50 years later.

Author

Kohiyama M, Hiraga S, Matic I, and Radman M

Subjects
Bacteriology history, Chromosomes, Bacterial metabolism, DNA Replication, DNA, Bacterial genetics, DNA, Bacterial history, DNA, Bacterial metabolism, History, 20th Century, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Recombination, Genetic, Chromosomes, Bacterial genetics, Conjugation, Genetic, Escherichia coli genetics, F Factor history
Abstract

The concept of chromosomes with a ring structure was born during the early studies of bacterial sexuality, and the discovery of fertility factors- episomes or plasmids-provided much later the key tools for gene cloning and biotechnology. But the plasmid-mediated transfer of antibiotic and other resistances, as well as pathogenicity, has served bacteria well in their own adaptive evolution.

Published
2003
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