Restriction-Modification Systems as Mobile Genetic Elements in the Evolution of an Intracellular Symbiont

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The interplay of restriction-modification systems with mobile genetic elements and their prokaryotic hosts

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Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

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CRISPR-Cas and restriction–modification systems are compatible and increase phage resistance

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Movement of DNA sequence recognition domains between non-orthologous proteins

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A Novel Human-Infection-Derived Bacterium Provides Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Mutualistic Insect–Bacterial Symbioses

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Evolutionary genome engineering using a restriction–modification system

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IS-Linked Movement of a Restriction-Modification System

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Birth and death of genes linked to chromosomal inversion

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Genome comparison and context analysis reveals putative mobile forms of restriction–modification systems and related rearrangements

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Genomic Analysis of "Elusimicrobium minutum," the First Cultivated Representative of the Phylum "Elusimicrobia" (Formerly Termite Group 1)

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Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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Complete genome of the uncultured Termite Group 1 bacteria in a single host protist cell

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