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Plasmids of carotenoid-producing Paracoccus spp. (Alphaproteobacteria) - structure, diversity and evolution.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Maj Anna, Dziewit Lukasz, Czarnecki Jakub, Wlodarczyk Miroslawa, Baj Jadwiga, Skrzypczyk Grazyna, Giersz Dorota, Bartosik Dariusz
Abstract excerpt
Plasmids are components of many bacterial genomes. They enable the spread of a large pool of genetic information via lateral gene transfer. Many bacterial strains contain mega-sized replicons and these are particularly common in Alphaproteobacteria. Considerably less is known about smaller alphaproteobacterial plasmids. We analyzed the genomes of 14 such plasmids residing in 4 multireplicon carotenoid-producing...
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