Editing Integron (section)

== 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]]''.<ref name="Hall2004">{{cite journal|doi=10.1099/mic.0.26854-0|title=Integrons or super integrons?|year=2004|last1=Hall|first1=R. M.|journal=Microbiology|volume=150|pages=3–4|pmid=14702391|last2=Stokes|first2=HW|issue=Pt 1|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1126/science.280.5363.605|title=A Distinctive Class of Integron in the Vibrio cholerae Genome|year=1998|last1=Mazel|first1=D.|journal=Science|volume=280|issue=5363|pages=605–8|pmid=9554855|last2=Dychinco|first2=B|last3=Webb|first3=VA|last4=Davies|first4=J|bibcode=1998Sci...280..605M}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Hall2004" />

In more modern usage, an integron located on a bacterial chromosome is termed a ''sedentary chromosomal integron'', and one associated with transposons or plasmids is called a ''mobile integron''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Loot |first1=Céline |last2=Nivina |first2=Aleksandra |last3=Cury |first3=Jean |last4=Escudero |first4=José Antonio |last5=Ducos-Galand |first5=Magaly |last6=Bikard |first6=David |last7=Rocha |first7=Eduardo P. C. |last8=Mazel |first8=Didier |title=Differences in Integron Cassette Excision Dynamics Shape a Trade-Off between Evolvability and Genetic Capacitance |journal=mBio |date=3 May 2017 |volume=8 |issue=2 |doi=10.1128/mBio.02296-16|pmid=28351923 |pmc=5371416 }}</ref>