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THERE are two basic requirements for the stable maintenance of an autonomous plasmid replicon, namely replication at a constant rate with respect to the cell division cycle and distribution of replicas to daughter cells.
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NOVICK, R., SCHWESINGER, M. Independence of plasmid incompatibility and replication control functions in Staphylococcus aureus. Nature 262, 623–626 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262623a0
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