The CRISPR Spacer Space Is Dominated By Sequences From The Species-Specific Mobilome
S. A. Shmakov, V. Sitnik, K. S. Makarova, Y. I. Wolf, K. V. Severinov, E. Koonin
The study analyzes CRISPR spacers across bacterial and archaeal genomes, finding most target mobile genetic elements and showing strong compositional correlations with microbial and viral genomes.
bioRxiv · May 12, 2017Microbiology