Mathematics of microbial plasmid instability and subsequent differential growth of plasmid-free and plasmid-containing cells, relevant to the analysis of experimental colony number data.

doi:10.1006/plas.1994.1051

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Mathematics of microbial plasmid instability and subsequent differential growth of plasmid-free and plasmid-containing cells, relevant to the analysis of experimental colony number data.

Plasmid - 1 Sept 1994

Proctor G N

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Differential growth of plasmid-containing and plasmid-free microbial cells occurs in many and probably most plasmid systems. Misinterpretation of differential growth as replicational, recombinational, or segregational stability or instability can unfortunately result in grossly erroneous conclusi...

Topics

Bacteria
Cell Division
Computer Simulation
Fungi
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Plasmids

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