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Biofilms can act as plasmid reserves in the absence of plasmid specific selection

Plasmids facilitate rapid bacterial adaptation by shuttling a wide variety of beneficial traits across microbial communities. However, under non-selective conditions, maintaining a plasmid can be costly to the host cell. Nonetheless, plasmids are ubiquitous in nature where bacteria adopt their domin...

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Autores principales: Røder, Henriette Lyng, Trivedi, Urvish, Russel, Jakob, Kragh, Kasper Nørskov, Herschend, Jakob, Thalsø-Madsen, Ida, Tolker-Nielsen, Tim, Bjarnsholt, Thomas, Burmølle, Mette, Madsen, Jonas Stenløkke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8497521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34620879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00249-w