Sentences with phrase «called mobile genetic elements»
These phages and plasmids can easily move between bacterial cells, and scientists have known for some time that, as a result, these so - called mobile genetic elements can play important roles in virulence and antibiotic resistance.
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Mobile DNA elements called retrotransposons may be a source of genetic variation in nerve cells
The repeats are mobile elements called transposons, also known as jumping genes, which can trigger mutations in the genes around them and lead to genetic disorders.
But efforts to identify the genes on the W chromosome that make silkworms female have come up short: the W does not seem to have any protein - making genes, and is instead almost completely filled with parasitic, mobile genetic elements called transposons.
«The most frequent way is the transfer via mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, or via transposons, the so - called jumping genes,» explains Friederike Hilbert, scientist at the Institute of Meat Hygiene at the Vetmeduni Vienna.
CRE are Gram - negative bacteria that frequently express a gene that codes for carbapenemase — an enzyme that breaks down carbapenem and other antibiotics — and that is located on «mobile genetic elements» called plasmids, which can jump from one bacterium to another.