Chlamydia suis undergoes interclade recombination promoting Tet-island exchange.
Helena M B Seth-SmithSankhya BommanaDeborah DeanTimothy D ReadHanna MartiPublished in: BMC genomics (2024)
Our study supports the hypothesis that the occurrence of TetR strains in both clades of C. suis came about through interclade recombination after a single ancestral horizontal gene transfer event.