Tag: Plasmids

Plasmid reconstruction recovers and characterizes plasmid DNA from sequencing data. Learn how metagenomic assembly, short- and long-read sequencing, plasmid detection, host association, genomic context, and resistance-gene analysis are used to investigate plasmids and genetic mobility.

Horizontal gene transfer enables microorganisms to acquire genetic material from other organisms outside normal parent-to-offspring inheritance. Learn how conjugation, transformation, transduction, plasmids, transposons, integrons, and other mobile genetic elements contribute to microbial evolution and antimicrobial resistance, and how metagenomics can investigate genetic mobility.

Mobile genetic elements are DNA structures that can move within genomes or between microorganisms and can carry antimicrobial resistance, virulence, metabolic, and adaptive genes. Learn about plasmids, transposons, integrons, insertion sequences, genomic islands, bacteriophages, horizontal gene transfer, and metagenomic methods for studying genetic mobility.