Microbial defenses against mobile genetic elements and viruses: Who defends whom from what?

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Unsolved Mysteries discuss a topic of biological importance that is poorly understood and in need of research attention.

About the Authors

Eduardo P. C. Rocha

* E-mail: eduardo.rocha@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, CNRS UMR3525, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Paris, France

David Bikard

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Synthetic Biology, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Bacteriophages
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Genomics
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Mobile genetic elements
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Gene flow
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Horizontal gene transfer
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Homologous recombination
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Cell death
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