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+# Host range expansion and genetic plasticity drive the trade-off between integrative and extrachromosomal mobile genetic elements
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+This repository contains all the supplementary data necessary to reproduce the results from the paper *Host range expansion and genetic plasticity drive the trade-off between integrative and extrachromosomal mobile genetic elements*
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+A Jupyter notebook allowing to reproduce al the main figure is available.
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