Mobile genetic elements: the agents of open source evolution

A review of mobile genetic elements as the agents of open source evolution in bacteria. The companion uses it for the mobilome: modules (prompts, skills, persona descriptions, and code) are copied between logomes as mobile genetic elements move through the shared bacterial gene pool. This underlies propagule abundance (P8), prediction 4, and the module-sharing cloud in Fig. 6a.

Cited in: the companion paper (Companion §7, Fig. 6)
Used for: P8 Prediction 4P8; prediction 4; modules (mobilome); Fig. 6a
Strand: Evolution & heredity · Heredity, variation & horizontal transfer

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@article{frost2005mobile,
  title = {Mobile genetic elements: the agents of open source evolution},
  author = {Laura S. Frost and Raphaël Leplae and Anne O. Summers and Ariane Toussaint},
  year = {2005},
  journal = {Nature Reviews Microbiology},
  doi = {10.1038/nrmicro1235},
}