Scaling laws of plasmids across the microbial tree of life
Rohan Maddamsetti, Irida Shyti, Maggie L. Wilson, Hye-In Son, Yasa Baig, Zhengqing Zhou, Jia Grace Lu, Lingchong You
The paper develops a new computational method to analyze plasmid copy numbers across microbial genomes and identifies three scaling laws relating plasmid length, gene content, and metabolic function.
Nature Communications · Jul 2, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology