Plasmidome

An environment's plasmidome is the total plasmids content in it.[1] The term is a portmanteau of the two English words Plasmid and Kingdom. In biological research, plasmidome may refer to the actual plasmids that were found and isolated from a certain microorganism by means of culturing isolated microorganism and investigating the plasmids it possesses or by taking an environmental sample and performing a metagenomic survey using next generation sequencing methods in order to reveal and characterize plasmid genomes that belong to that environment.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Walker, Alan (2012). "Welcome to the plasmidome". Nature Reviews Microbiology 10 (6): 379–379. doi:10.1038/nrmicro2804.
  2. ↑ Brown Kav, Aya; et al. (2012). "Insights into the bovine rumen plasmidome". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1116410109.
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