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Plasmid Diversity and Adaptation Analyzed by Massive Sequencing of Escherichia coli Plasmids.
Microbiology spectrum - 1 Dec 2014
de Toro María, Garcilláon-Barcia M Pilar, De La Cruz Fernando
Abstract excerpt
Whole-genome sequencing is revolutionizing the analysis of bacterial genomes. It leads to a massive increase in the amount of available data to be analyzed. Bacterial genomes are usually composed of one main chromosome and a number of accessory chromosomes, called plasmids. A recently developed methodology called PLACNET (for plasmid constellation networks) allows the reconstruction of the plasmids of a given...
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