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Microbial genomics

the same mobile gene modules are recruited by host defense systems and by the parasites that attack them.

In microbial genomics, guns for hire refers to the same mobile gene modules are recruited by host defense systems and by the parasites that attack them. This meaning comes from Koonin (2019) in Nature Reviews Genetics.[1]

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References

Koonin, E. V., Makarova, K. S., Wolf, Y. I., & Krupovic, M. (2019). Evolutionary entanglement of mobile genetic elements and host defence systems: guns for hire. Nature Reviews Genetics, 21(2), 119-131. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-019-0172-9

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