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Plasmid diversity in arctic strains of Psychrobacter spp.
Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions - 1 May 2013
Dziewit Lukasz, Cegielski Adrian, Romaniuk Krzysztof, Uhrynowski Witold, Szych Antoni, Niesiobedzki Pawel, Zmuda-Baranowska Magdalena J, Zdanowski Marek K, Bartosik Dariusz
Abstract excerpt
Six strains of Psychrobacter spp. isolated from guano of little auks collected on Spitsbergen island (Arctic) carried nine plasmids that were fully sequenced. These replicons (ranging in size from 2917 to 14924 bp) contained either repA (ColE2-type) or repB (iteron-type) replication systems of a relatively narrow host range, limited to Psychrobacter spp. All but one of the plasmids carried predicted mobilization...
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