I have experienced a strange thing while my recent cloning. After I had sequenced my clone i noticed that a part of the nucleotide sequence got missing from the plasmid backbone. I have not done any perturbation to this sequence and it also does not contain any site for the restriction enzyme site i have used for my cloning. It was a simple cloning with just cut and paste the insert. I am wondering how and why the nucleotide sequence could go missing in the clone? Is there any explanation or has any one experienced such a thing? Or is it just a bad vector and I need to check the vector.