Górecki, Roman Krzysztof; Koryszewska-Bagińska, Anna; Gołębiewski, Marcin; Żylińska, Joanna; Grynberg, Marcin; Bardowski, Jacek K.
(PLOS, 2011-07-18)
The extrachromosomal gene pool plays a significant role both in evolution and in the environmental adaptation of bacteria.
The L. lactis subsp. lactis IL594 strain contains seven plasmids, named pIL1 to pIL7, and is the ...