Compositional discordance between prokaryotic plasmids and host chromosomes
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Most plasmids depend on the host replication machinery and possess partitioning genes. These properties confine plasmids to a limited range of hosts, yielding a close and presumably stable relationship between plasmid and host. Hence...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-02-01
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| Series: | BMC Genomics |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/7/26 |