Terminology The term super-integron was first applied in 1998 (but without definition) to the integron with a long cassette array on the small chromosome of Vibrio cholerae''. The term has since been used for integrons of various cassette array lengths or for integrons on bacterial chromosomes (versus, for example, plasmids). Use of "super-integron" is now discouraged since its meaning is unclear .
Terminology The term super-integron was first applied in 1998 (but without definition) to the integron with a long cassette array on the small chromosome of Vibrio cholerae''. The term has since been used for integrons of various cassette array lengths or for integrons on bacterial chromosomes (versus, for example, plasmids). "super-integron" meaning was unclear and a new treminology "sedendary chromosomal integron"Escudero JA, Loot C, Nivina A, Mazel D. The Integron: Adaptation On Demand. Microbiol Spectr. 2015 Apr;3(2):MDNA3-0019-2014 doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.MDNA3-0019-2014. which is better defined (when their frequency in the pan-genome of a given species was 100\%, or when they contained more than 19 attC sites) is now preferably used .
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