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. 2013 Feb 28;8(2):e56854. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056854

Figure 5. The need for topology breakers for circular plasmids.

Figure 5

Exchange is shown occurring in the recombination of two linear fragments (shown in red and green) (A). Exchange is also shown for two circular plasmids, which requires an additional recombination (B). Topology breaker sites are shown as triangles.