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A highly conserved and globally prevalent cryptic plasmid is among the most numerous mobile genetic elements in the human gut

2023-03-25

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Plasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements that often encode fitness enhancing features. However, many bacteria carry ‘cryptic’ plasmids that do not confer clear beneficial functions. We identified one such cryptic plasmid, pBI143, which is ubiquitous across industrialized gut microbiomes, and is 14 times as numerous as crAssphage, currently established as the most abundant genetic element i...

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Literature Corpus work: 2106a677-9a0b-521a-9f76-0c2988f08c90
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.25.534219

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