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Diversity, biology and evolution of IncQ-family plasmids.
Plasmid - 1 Jan 2012
Loftie-Eaton Wesley, Rawlings Douglas E
Abstract excerpt
Plasmids of IncQ-family are distinguished by having a unique strand-displacement mechanism of replication that is capable of functioning in a wide variety of bacterial hosts. In addition, these plasmids are highly mobilizable and therefore very promiscuous. Common features of the replicons have been used to identify IncQ-family plasmids in DNA sequence databases and in this way several unstudied plasmids have...
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