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Starving E. coli Shuffle Their DNA Using Viruses and CRISPR — a Primitive Kind of Sex

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ISTA researchers found starving E. coli use bacteriophages and CRISPR-Cas defences to shuffle DNA between cells at over 100 times the spontaneous background mutation rate.

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  1. Scientific InquirerStarving E. coli Shuffle Their DNA Using Viruses and CRISPR — a Primitive Kind of SexISTA researchers found starving E. coli use bacteriophages and CRISPR-Cas defences to shuffle DNA between cells at over 100 times the spontaneous background mutation rate.