Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of plasmids: the <it>Acinetobacter </it>pan-plasmidome
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Prokaryotic plasmids have a dual importance in the microbial world: first they have a great impact on the metabolic functions of the host cell, providing additional traits that can be accumulated in the cell without altering the gene...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-02-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/59 |