Uniform nomenclature for bacterial plasmids: a proposal.

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Department ofPlasmid Biology, The Public Health Research Institute of the City ofNew York, Inc., New York, New York 10016*; Division ofBiology, University ofTexas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080; Department ofMedicine, Stanford University School ofMedicine, Stanford, California 94305; Department of Microbiology, University ofAlabama in Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294; Department of Bacteriology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 OHS, England; Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195