Archaeal plasmids are extrachromosomal elements isolated from organisms that belong to the domain of Archaea.
Keywords: archaea; plasmid; shuttle vector; transposon
Archaeal Plasmids
Warren L Gardner, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0000387
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| Further Reading | |
| book Charlebois RL (1999) "Evolutionary origins of the haloarchaeal genome". In: Oren A (ed.) Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of Hypersaline Environments, pp. 309–317. Washington DC: CRC Press. | |
| book Charlebois RL and DasSarma S (1995) "Insertion elements of halophiles". In: DasSarma S and Fleischmann EM (eds) Archaea: A Laboratory Manual, Halophiles, pp. 253–255. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. | |
| Zeikus JG, Vieille C and Savchenko A (1998) Thermozymes: biotechnology and structure–function relationships. Extremophiles 2: 179–183. | |
