Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility
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Blog Post
...It is also worth noting that plasmids can be symmetrically incompatible, meaning that both plasmids are... from the cell with the same probability, or asymmetrical, where one plasmid lost from the cell at a higher... higher rate than the coresident plasmid. Asymmetric plasmid loss occurs for several reasons, including...high copy incompatible plasmids that lead to asymmetrical plasmid loss of the usually large, low copy ...