Plasmid stability is enhanced by higher-frequency pulses of positive selection
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Plasmid stability is enhanced by higher-frequency pulses of positive selection
Plasmids accelerate bacterial adaptation by sharing ecologically important traits between lineages. However, explaining plasmid stability in bacterial populations is challenging owing to their associated costs. Previous theoretical and experimental studies suggest that pulsed positive selection may explain plasmid stability by favouring gene mobility and promoting compensatory evolution to amel...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2497