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Generalized Transduction

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Prokaryotic Genomics

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Transduction is a phenomenon in which bacterial DNA is transferred from one bacterial cell to another by a phage particle. There are two types of transduction: generalized transduction and specialized transduction.

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Thierauf, A., Maloy, S. (2003). Generalized Transduction. In: Blot, M. (eds) Prokaryotic Genomics. Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8963-6_6

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