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The 2010 Garrod Lecture: The dimensions of evolution in antibiotic resistance: ex unibus plurum et ex pluribus unum
16 Jun 2011
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Antibiotic resistance is not only the result of antibiotic-driven selection, as has been frequently considered, but rather the consequence of extremely complex evolutionary processes. These processes act on bacterial populations, but also on populations of subcellular (as plasmids) or supracellular (species, communities) units of evolution. The consideration of the effects of drift and selection provides a first...
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