The plasmid paradox
Why?
(size, cost, copy number)
cryptic plasmid
something else
Elucidating the plasmid paradox is challenge in evolutionary theory, for this reason many researchers has focused their investigations on studying plasmids stability.
Plasmid modeling has been a field of interest because they can be use as vector to introduce a gene into a bacteria to produce a particular product.
Another motor for the study of plasmids behavior in a population has been the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance. In which plasmids play a special role.
Models are cool
The importance of models not only rely in their help to understand a particular process. In order for a model to work, the model must reproduce a behavior or fit an experimental data set, in such effort, abstractions and generalization must be made
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