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. 2020 Jul;22(7):2457-2460.
doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15056. Epub 2020 Jun 14.

Vesiduction: the fourth way of HGT

Nicolas Soler  1 , Patrick Forterre  2   3
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Vesiduction: the fourth way of HGT

Nicolas Soler et al. Environ Microbiol. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

Besides the canonical gene transfer mechanisms transformation, transduction and conjugation, DNA transfer involving extracellular vesicles is still under appreciated. However, this widespread phenomenon has been observed in the three domains of life. Here, we propose the term 'Vesiduction' as a fourth mode of intercellular DNA transfer.

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