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@article{Ajon2011UVinducibleDE,
  title={UV‐inducible DNA exchange in hyperthermophilic archaea mediated by type IV pili},
  author={Małgorzata Ajon and Sabrina Fr{\"o}ls and Marleen van Wolferen and Kilian Stoecker and Daniela Teichmann and Arnold J. M. Driessen and Dennis W. Grogan and Sonja-Verena Albers and Christa Schleper},
  journal={Molecular Microbiology},
  year={2011},
  volume={82},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:42880145}
}

It is demonstrated by fluorescence in situ hybridization that cellular aggregates are formed based on a species‐specific recognition process and that UV‐induced cellular aggregation mediates chromosomal marker exchange with high frequency and may contribute substantially to the frequent chromosomal DNA exchange and horizontal gene transfer in these archaea in their natural habitat.

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