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Plasmid Detection, Characterization, and Ecology.
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79 citing papers in PubMed.
- Plasmid-Host Networks Reveal Persistent Mobile Elements Across Wastewater Treatment.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Ecological theory sheds light on plasmid diversity and dynamics.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Invasion dynamics of antimicrobial-resistant E. coli in river biofilms: impacts on the resistome, microbiomes, and horizontal gene transfer.npj antimicrobials and resistance · 2026Article
- The interplay between ecological networks drives host-plasmid community dynamics.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Unraveling plasmid contributions to phosphorus acquisition in soil microbiomes.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- A novel ABC family protein participates in the regulation of fitness cost caused byFundamental research · 2026Article
- PlasAnn: a curated plasmid-specific database and annotation pipeline for standardized gene and function analysis.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Capture and characterization of antibiotic resistance plasmids from Beargrass Creek, an urban watershed in Louisville, KY.microPublication biology · 2026Article
- Phylogenomic analysis of Paracidovorax citrulli strains reveals the presence of two lineages in Brazil.Genetics and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Probiogenomics as a Computational Biotechnology Framework: Safety-Gated Genome Analytics for Candidate Probiotic Prioritization and Validation.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026Review
- Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity of Soluble Di-Iron Monooxygenases.Environmental microbiology · 2025Review
- The influence of depth on the global deep-sea plasmidome.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The pathway to resolve dimeric forms distinguishes plasmids from megaplasmids in Enterobacteriaceae.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
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- Unde venis? Bacterial resistance from environmental reservoirs to lettuce: tracking microbiome and resistome over a growth period.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad.Nature biotechnology · 2024Article
- Diverse plasmid systems and their ecology across human gut metagenomes revealed by PlasX and MobMess.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- Plasmids, a molecular cornerstone of antimicrobial resistance in the One Health era.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
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- Recent Developments and Applications of Biocatalytic and Chemoenzymatic Synthesis for the Generation of Diverse Classes of Drugs.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plasmids are important vehicles for rapid adaptation of bacterial populations to changing environmental conditions. It is thought that to reduce the cost of plasmid carriage, only a fraction of a local population carries plasmids or is permissive to plasmid uptake. Plasmids provide various accessory traits which might be beneficial under particular conditions. The genetic variation generated by plasmid carriage within populations ensures the robustness toward environmental changes. Plasmid-mediated gene transfer plays an important role not only in the mobilization and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes but also in the spread of degradative pathways and pathogenicity determinants of pathogens. Here we summarize the state-of-the-art methods to study the occurrence, abundance, and diversity of plasmids in environmental bacteria. Increasingly, cultivation-independent total-community DNA-based methods are being used to characterize and quantify the diversity and abundance of plasmids in relation to various biotic and abiotic factors. An improved understanding of the ecology of plasmids and their hosts is crucial in the development of intervention strategies for antibiotic-resistance-gene spread. We discuss the potentials and limitations of methods used to determine the host range of plasmids, as the ecology of plasmids is tightly linked to their hosts. The recent advances in sequencing technologies provide an enormous potential for plasmid classification, diversity, and evolution studies, but numerous challenges still exist.
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