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SUBMITTER: Evans BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3603394 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evans Benjamin A BA Rozen Daniel E DE
The ISME journal 20130110 4
The naturally transformable bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is able to take up extracellular DNA and incorporate it into its genome. Maintaining natural transformation within a species requires that the benefits of transformation outweigh its costs. Although much is known about the distribution of natural transformation among bacterial species, little is known about the degree to which transformation frequencies vary within species. Here we find that there is significant variation in transfor ...[more]