ReviewMicrobiology (Reading, England)2023
A mathematician's guide to plasmids: an introduction to plasmid biology for modellers.
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- Modelling the role of the microbiome in antimicrobial resistance across scales.Nature microbiology · 2026Review
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- The interplay between ecological networks drives host-plasmid community dynamics.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
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- PlasRAG: comprehensive plasmid characterization and retrieval through sequence-text alignment.Genome biology · 2026Article
- Fitness costs and persistence of plasmid-mediated cephalosporin resistance inFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of CRISPR-Cas in sensitizing bacterial populations with plasmid-encoded antimicrobial resistance.Genetics · 2025Article
- Metabolic remodeling of microorganisms by mobile genetic elements alters mutualistic community composition.mSystems · 2025Article
- The role of plasmid copy number and mutation rate in evolutionary outcomes.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- How many plasmids can bacteria carry? A synthetic biology perspective.Open biology · 2025Review
- MOSTPLAS: a self-correction multi-label learning model for plasmid host range prediction.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
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- Genes for cooperation are not more likely to be carried by plasmids.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- PlasGO: enhancing GO-based function prediction for plasmid-encoded proteins based on genetic structure.GigaScience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plasmids, extrachromosomal DNA molecules commonly found in bacterial and archaeal cells, play an important role in bacterial genetics and evolution. Our understanding of plasmid biology has been furthered greatly by the development of mathematical models, and there are many questions about plasmids that models would be useful in answering. In this review, we present an introductory, yet comprehensive, overview of the biology of plasmids suitable for modellers unfamiliar with plasmids who want to get up to speed and to begin working on plasmid-related models. In addition to reviewing the diversity of plasmids and the genes they carry, their key physiological functions, and interactions between plasmid and host, we also highlight selected plasmid topics that may be of particular interest to modellers and areas where there is a particular need for theoretical development. The world of plasmids holds a great variety of subjects that will interest mathematical biologists, and introducing new modellers to the subject will help to expand the existing body of plasmid theory.
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