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Microbial Primer: The logic of bacterial plasmids Open Access

This article is part of our Microbial Primers collection.

Abstract

This short primer is intended to give an overview of bacterial plasmids for those not yet familiar with these fascinating genetic elements. It covers their basic properties but does not attempt to cover the diversity of phenotypic properties that can be encoded by plasmids, and includes suggestions for further reading.

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Keyword(s): autonomous replication , conjugative transfer , extrachromosomal element , horizontal gene transfer , mobile genetic element and plasmid
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Award BB/X512230/1)
    • Principle Award Recipient: ChristopherMorton Thomas
© 2023 The Authors
  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.
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Microbial Primer: The logic of bacterial plasmids
Microbiology 169, 001336 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001336
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