GENE TRANSFER AGENTS. “Perhaps the most striking showcase for dedicated vehicles of HGT are the gene transfer agents (GTAs), defective prophages that form virus particles in which they package apparently random fragments of the bacterial chromosome rather than the phage genome.” (HGT = horizontal gene transfer).
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022