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Essential gene acquisition destabilizes plasmid inheritance

Extra-chromosomal genetic elements are important drivers of evolutionary transformations and ecological adaptations in prokaryotes with their evolutionary success often depending on their ‘utility’ to the host. Examples are plasmids encoding antibiotic resistance genes, which are known to proliferat...

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Autores principales: Wein, Tanita, Wang, Yiqing, Barz, Myriam, Stücker, Fenna T., Hammerschmidt, Katrin, Dagan, Tal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8297927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34252089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009656