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[Microbiology] "cryptic plasmid?!"

Tânia Caetano via microbio%40net.bio.net (by tcaetano from ua.pt)
Tue Dec 18 19:43:02 EST 2007


Hello

Anyone knows if it is possible a bacterial cell with a plasmid  
survive without it? In other words, there is any case of a plasmid  
essential to the bacterial growth (environmental sampling)? And if it  
is the case we can apply the term cryptic ? Because I thought cryptic  
was just a plasmid with unknown function.

thanks
biotc



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