Study of the ecology of the insertion element IS1071 and its contribution to microbial adaptation in a wide community KU Leuven
Horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities play an essential role in the adaptation of their community members and the community itself to environmental changes. Typical examples are adaptations that confer traits as antibiotic resistance, metal resistance and catabolism of xenobiotic organics. Among the vehicles that govern horizontal gene transfer are conjugative elements such as plasmids, and insertion (IS) elements. Conjugative ...