Targeted diversity generation by intraterrestrial archaea and archaeal viruses
Published in Nature Communications, 2015
Recommended citation: BG Paul, SC Bagby, E Czornyj, D Arambula, S Handa, A Sczyrba, P Ghosh, JF Miller, and DL Valentine (2015). "Targeted diversity generation by intraterrestrial archaea and archaeal viruses." Nature Comm 6:6585. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7585.
A genomic cassette with more diversity-generating potential than the vertebrate immune system is active in archaea and archaeal viruses, not just in bacteria and bacteriophage. Metagenomics, single-cell genomics, evolution.