A reduced genome decreases the host carrying capacity for foreign DNA.

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Individual analyses of each plasmid-host construct revealed a highly significant negative correlation between normalized growth rates and plasmid copy numbers ( PCNs ) (Additional file 1 : Figure S3).

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