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. 2021 Nov 29;377(1842):20200472. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0472

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Figure 1. — Percentage of plasmid publications containing the term ‘megaplasmid’. Metadata on publications containing the term ‘plasmid’ or ‘megaplasmid’ from 1981 to date were retrieved separately from Pubmed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/advanced/) using the following search queries: for ‘plasmid’ - (plasmid[Title/Abstract]) AND ((‘1981’ [Date - Publication] : ‘3000’ [Date - Publication])); for ‘megaplasmid’ - (megaplasmid[Title/Abstract]) OR (mega-plasmid[Title/Abstract]) AND ((‘1981’[Date - Publication] : ‘3000’[Date - Publication])). The number of publications recorded for each term per year was used to calculate the percentages displayed in the plot.