Multiple origins of reverse transcriptases linked to CRISPR-Cas systems

Novel Families of Archaeo-Eukaryotic Primases Associated with Mobile Genetic Elements of Bacteria and Archaea

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Systematic prediction of genes functionally linked to CRISPR-Cas systems by gene neighborhood analysis

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Comprehensive search for accessory proteins encoded with archaeal and bacterial type III CRISPR-cas gene cassettes reveals 39 new cas gene families

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Systematic discovery of antiphage defense systems in the microbial pangenome

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On the Origin and Evolutionary Relationships of the Reverse Transcriptases Associated With Type III CRISPR-Cas Systems

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A Reverse Transcriptase-Cas1 Fusion Protein Contains a Cas6 Domain Required for Both CRISPR RNA Biogenesis and RNA Spacer Acquisition

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Transcriptional recording by CRISPR spacer acquisition from RNA

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Functionally diverse type V CRISPR-Cas systems

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Programmed DNA destruction by miniature CRISPR-Cas14 enzymes

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Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems

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Diversity-generating retroelements: natural variation, classification and evolution inferred from a large-scale genomic survey

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On the Origin of Reverse Transcriptase-Using CRISPR-Cas Systems and Their Hyperdiverse, Enigmatic Spacer Repertoires

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The Reverse Transcriptases Associated with CRISPR-Cas Systems

(2017) Nicolás Toro et al.   Scientific Reports

New CRISPR–Cas systems from uncultivated microbes

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Improvements to PATRIC, the all-bacterial Bioinformatics Database and Analysis Resource Center

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Direct CRISPR spacer acquisition from RNA by a natural reverse transcriptase-Cas1 fusion protein

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Revised phylogeny of Bacteroidetes and proposal of sixteen new taxa and two new combinations including Rhodothermaeota phyl. nov.

(2016) Raul Munoz et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems

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RNA Targeting by the Type III-A CRISPR-Cas Csm Complex of Thermus thermophilus

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Programmable RNA Shredding by the Type III-A CRISPR-Cas System of Streptococcus thermophilus

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Comprehensive Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacterial Reverse Transcriptases

(2014) Nicolás Toro et al.   PLoS One

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

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The NCBI Taxonomy database

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FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Group II Introns: Mobile Ribozymes that Invade DNA

(2010) A. M. Lambowitz et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Systematic Survey for Novel Types of Prokaryotic Retroelements Based on Gene Neighborhood and Protein Architecture

(2008) K. K. Kojima et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A diversity of uncharacterized reverse transcriptases in bacteria

(2008) Dawn M. Simon et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH