A plasmid with segments from many former bacterial hostsThe diagram shows the origins of genes of the Lactococcus lactis plasmid pK214. The genes are from many different bacteria.
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Data from Table 1 in V. Perreten, F. Schwarz, L. Cresta, M. Boeglin, G. Dasen, and M. Teuber, Nature
389, 1997, 801–802.]