| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Mechanisms of horizontal gene flux include mobile genetic elements such as conjugative plasmids, bacteriophages, transposons, insertion elements, and genomic islands, as well as the mechanism of recombination of foreign DNA into host DNA (128, 236).In this review, we focus on a group of mobile genetic elements whose discovery has influenced and revised our thinking about genomic stability and the
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