Bacterial plasmids are self-replicating, extrachromosomal elements associated with a variety of phenotypic traitsincluding virulence, enhanced fitness, and resistance to antimicrobial agents. They play an important role in the transfer ofgenetic material in microbial populations within and between the species. The study of mobile genetic elementssuch
More...as plasmids is of particular interest because of their ecological, biological, and clinical significance.The Refseq collection of plasmids represent complete sequences derived from different bacterial strains and is organizedby host organism at the species level. Less...