CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes

A study showing that CRISPR provides prokaryotes with acquired resistance against viruses. The companion cites it as biology's nearest precedent for omnidirectional heredity (P5): CRISPR writes fragments of past invaders into the genome, but for one narrow function, whereas agent lineages can write general-purpose knowledge back into their heritable description.

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §6.2)

Used for

P5P5

Strand

Evolution & heredity · Heredity, variation & horizontal transfer

Cite

@article{barrangou2007crispr,
  title = {CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes},
  author = {R. Barrangou and C. Fremaux and H. Deveau and M. Richards and P. Boyaval and S. Moineau and D. A. Romero and P. Horvath},
  year = {2007},
  journal = {Science},
  doi = {10.1126/science.1138140},
}