a large plasmid that is used as a cloning vector and is able to clone large segments of DNA
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These gap sizes were reduced, but not eliminated, by shearing the linear cosmid into smaller fragments.
Farman Mark L, Schwartz Sherri L 2010, 'Systematic overrepresentation of DNA termini and underrepresentation of subterminalregions among sequencing templates prepared from hydrodynamically sheared linear DNAmolecules', BMC Genomicshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/87. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
To link these phenotypes to parasite genes, we have developed a robust complementation system based on a genomic cosmid library.
Marc-Jan Gubbels, Margaret Lehmann, Mani Muthalagi, Maria E Jerome, Carrie F Brooks,Tomasz Szatanek, Jayme Flynn, Ben Parrot, Josh Radke, Boris Striepen, Michael W White 2008, 'Forward genetic analysis of the apicomplexan cell division cycle in Toxoplasma gondii.',PLoS Pathogenshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2242837?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)