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  • In biology, pertaining to conjugation: as, a conjugative process.

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  • adjective Of, relating to, or producing combination or conjunction; combinative or connective.

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Examples

  • Silverman said the research casts light on the role structures known as conjugative pili -- slender, thread-like bacterial filaments -- play in spreading antibiotic resistance.

    The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning 2008

  • Anyway we live in self pumping conjugative mirror, Barbaryons barbarians I think.

    Think Progress » Fox News Segment Falsely Claims That Denver Blizzard Casts Doubt On Global Warming 2007

  • To exploit the use of conjugative improvement requires an understanding of plasmid biology and, in many cases, few conjugative plasmids encoding genes of interest have been identified or sufficiently characterized.

    1 Upgrading Traditional Biotechnological Processes 1992

  • More specifically, three entire copies of a previously described integrative conjugative element are found in 5632 that accounts for ca. 80 kbp.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Laurent Nouvel 2010

  • Mullany P (2000) The large resolvase TndX is required and sufficient for integration and excision of derivatives of the novel conjugative transposon Tn5397.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaohui Liu et al. 2010

  • Gene annotation indicated that one of these insertions was a conjugative Tn-like element and the other was a prophage-like element, which was shown to be capable of excision.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Roibeard Thornton 2010

  • Moreover, we identified that plasmid conjugative transfer genes and antibiotic resistance genes are more likely to suffer from positive selection, as indicated by the elevated rates of nonsynonymous substitution.

    Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010

  • This is the first biochemical characterization of conjugative transport ATPases encoded by a conjugative plasmid from Aeromonas.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Ashraf Rangrez 2010

  • Moreover, we identified that plasmid conjugative transfer genes and antibiotic resistance genes are more likely to suffer from positive selection, as indicated by the elevated rates of nonsynonymous substitution.

    Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010

  • This is the first biochemical characterization of conjugative transport ATPases encoded by a conjugative plasmid from Aeromonas.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Ashraf Rangrez 2010

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