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A mathematician’s guide to plasmids: an introduction to plasmid biology for modellers Open Access

This article is part of the Microbial Evolution collection.

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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Keyword(s): bacterial evolution , horizontal gene transfer , mobile genetic elements , modelling and plasmids
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Award 400993799)
    • Principle Award Recipient: HildegardUecker
© 2023 The Authors
  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.
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A mathematician’s guide to plasmids: an introduction to plasmid biology for modellers
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