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The ability to rapidly build this new pathway in a single micro-organism was
likely driven by independent and multiple plasmid transfer and transposition
events, the genetic machinery facilitating metabolic diversity. The analysis
of the complete genomes of many micro-organisms has repeatedly shown
that microbial genomes are plastic, mosaic and composite, and these pro-
perties play a prominent role in the ability of micro-organisms to rapidly
respond to changing environments and the input of novel compounds in to
the environment.
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