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Horizontal Gene Transfer, Fitness Costs and Mobility Shape the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Genes into Experimental Populations of Acinetobacter Baylyi
12 Feb 2023
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Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is important for microbial evolution, but how evolutionary forces shape the frequencies of horizontally transferred genetic variants in the absence of strong selection remains an open question. In this study, we evolve laboratory populations of Acinetobacter baylyi (ADP1) with HGT from two clinically relevant strains of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (AB5075 and A9844)....
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