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Kalilo plasmids are a family of four distinct members with individual global distributions across species.
Current genetics - 1 Jan 2000
He C, Nastasja de Groot, Bok J W, Griffiths A J
Abstract excerpt
Kalilo is a linear 9-kb plasmid, isolated originally from Hawaiian strains of the heterothallic fungus Neurospora intermedia. Its properties include terminal inverted repeats, two ORFs coding for a presumptive DNA and an RNA polymerase, and the ability to cause senescence in its original host and in the closely related species Neurospora crassa. We have examined natural isolates alleged to contain plasmids...
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