The ecology and evolution of microbial CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019 May 13;374(1772):20190101. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0101.

Authors

Edze R Westra¹, Stineke van Houte¹, Sylvain Gandon², Rachel Whitaker³

Affiliations

¹ 1 ESI and CEC, Biosciences, University of Exeter , Cornwall Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ , UK.
² 2 CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS Université de Montpellier Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier EPHE , 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 , France.
³ 3 Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, 601 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 , USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Introductory Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adaptive Immunity / genetics*
Archaea / genetics
Archaea / immunology
Bacteria / genetics
Bacteria / immunology
Bacteriophages / genetics
Bacteriophages / immunology
CRISPR-Cas Systems / immunology*
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats / immunology*

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