There are two main processes by which transduction occurs: generalized and specialized (explained below in more detail). Recently, Chen et al discovered a third mechanism in Staphylococcus aureus, 2 ...

Up to now, two mechanisms of genetic transduction were known: generalized and specialized transduction. For over 60 years, since their discovery by American scientist and Nobel laureate Joshua ...

A newly revealed mechanism of horizontal gene transfer improves understanding ... It has previously been observed that SaPIs can mediate low-frequency generalized transduction, which is the ...

Research into the mechanisms of DNA transfer in asexual ... In specialized and generalized transduction, specific and nonspecific parts of the chromosomal DNA of the host chromosomal DNA are ...

Here, we review lysogeny from molecular mechanisms to ecological patterns ... or not in association with phage genome (generalized transduction). Virome: Metagenomic sequences of viral communities.