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Plasmidome

An environment's plasmidome refers to the plasmids present in it. 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.

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An environment's plasmidome refers to the plasmids present 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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  1. Walker, Alan (2012). "Welcome to the plasmidome". Nature Reviews Microbiology. 10 (6): 379. doi:10.1038/nrmicro2804. PMID 22580363.
  2. Brown Kav, Aya; et al. (2012). "Insights into the bovine rumen plasmidome". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (14): 5452–5457. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.5452K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1116410109. PMC 3325734. PMID 22431592.