MicrobiologyISME CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence space
Dominik Lücking, Coraline Mercier, Tomás Alarcón-Schumacher, Susanne Erdmann
The paper develops a method to isolate and analyze protected environmental DNA (peDNA) from marine samples, revealing that extracellular vesicles are a major contributor to non-viral sequence space and play a significant role in horizontal gene transfer.
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