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Positive Selection Inhibits Plasmid Coexistence in Bacterial Genomes.

mBio - 11 May 2021

Carrilero Laura, Kottara Anastasia, Guymer David, Harrison Ellie, Hall James P J, Brockhurst Michael A

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Plasmids play an important role in bacterial evolution by transferring niche-adaptive functional genes between lineages, thus driving genomic diversification. Bacterial genomes commonly contain multiple, coexisting plasmid replicons, which could fuel adaptation by increasing the range of gene functions available to selection and allowing their recombination. However, plasmid coexistence is difficult to explain...

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PMID: 33975933
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00558-21
PMCID: PMC8262885

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