A Journal of Mobile Genes and Genomes

Plasmid publishes original research on genetic elements in all kingdoms of life with emphasis on maintenance, transmission and evolution of extrachromosomal elements. Objects of interest include plasmids, bacteriophages, mobile genetic elements, organelle DNA, and genomic and pathogenicity islands.

Plasmid welcomes topics such as horizontal gene transfer, including antibiotic resistance transfer, and molecular aspects of microbial ecology. It also welcomes applications of plasmid biology to biotechnology and medicine, and of bioinformatics for studies of genomes. The journal is a bi-monthly that publishes full articles, short communications and reviews.

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original research
full articles
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Editor-in-Chief
Julian Rood
Monash University, Department of Microbiology, Wellington Road, 3800, Victoria, Australia
Editor-Reviews
Barbara Funnell
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Editors
Daniela Barillà
University of York Department of Biology, Wentworth Way, YO10 5YW, York, United Kingdom
Philipp Berger
Paul Scherrer Institute Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, CH-5232, Villigen, Switzerland
Susana Brom
National Autonomous University of Mexico Center for Genomic Sciences, Avenida Universidad 1001, 62210, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Manel Camps
University of California at Santa Cruz Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, Santa Cruz, California, 95064, United States
Josep Casadesus
University of Seville Faculty of Biology, Apartado 1095, 41012, Sevilla, Spain
Manuel Espinosa
Center for Biological Research, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040, Madrid, Spain
Neville Firth
The University of Sydney School of Life and Environmental Science, Camperdown, 2006, Australia
Florian Fricke
University of Maryland Institute for Genome Sciences, 801 W Baltimore St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201-1109, United States
Elisabeth Grohmann
Beuth University of Applied Sciences Faculty V Life Sciences and Technology, Seestraße 64, Seestraße 64 13, Berlin, Germany
Ruth Hall
The University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, New South Wales, Australia
Saleem Khan
University of Pittsburgh Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, E1240 Biomedical Science Tower, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA 15261, United States
Georg Lipps
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Institute of Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Gründenstr. 40, 4132, Muttenz, Switzerland
Matxalen Llosa Blas
Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria, Albert Einstein 22, PCTCAN, 39011, Santander, Spain
Richard Novick
New York University Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, 540 1st Ave, New York, New York, NY 10016, United States
Gregory Phillips
Iowa State University Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, 1802 University Boulevard, Ames, Iowa, IA 50011, United States
Marie-Cecile Ploy
Dupuytren Hospital, 87042, Limoges, France
Ewa Sadowy
National Medicines Institute Department of Molecular Microbiology, ul. Chelmska 30/34, 00-725, Warsaw, Poland
Eva Top
University of Idaho Department of Biological Sciences, PO Box 443051, Moscow, Idaho, 83844-3051, United States
Laurence Van Melderen
Free University of Brussels Genetics and bacterial physiology, 12 rue des Professeurs Jeener et Brachet, 6041, Gosselies, Belgium
Grzegorz Wegrzyn
University of Gdansk Department of Molecular Biology, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-822, Gdansk, Poland