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Multi-host environments select for host-generalist conjugative plasmids

BACKGROUND: Conjugative plasmids play an important role in bacterial evolution by transferring ecologically important genes within and between species. A key limit on interspecific horizontal gene transfer is plasmid host range. Here, we experimentally test the effect of single and multi-host enviro...

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Autores principales: Kottara, Anastasia, Hall, James P. J., Harrison, Ellie, Brockhurst, Michael A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27039285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0642-z