Excited to share our review relating to the giant extrachromosomal elements (ECEs)
We cover: why long-read metagenomics enables their discovery, genomic comparisons across recently characterized examples, and limitations of current classification tools.
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Prokaryotes harbor a diverse spectrum of extrachromosomal elements (ECEs), which are
intracellular replicons maintained independently of the primary chromosome. Historically,
the ECE research field ha...