[The mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer: the role of bacteriophages and integrons in the evolution of pathogenic bacteria].
The role of bacteriophages, e.g. filamentous phages, whose single-stranded DNA comprise the coding virulence factors, as well as of certain suspected bacteriophage derivatives like constin-elements, integrons and chromosomal super-integron, played by them in the horizontal gene transfer and in the evolution of bacteria is under discussion.
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Gamaley's Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal / Q000502:physiology*; D014774:Virulence / Q000235:genetics
D004251:DNA Transposable Elements