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Plasmids facilitate pathogenicity, not cooperation, in bacteria

2021-03-01

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Horizontal gene transfer via plasmids could favour cooperation in bacteria, because transfer of a cooperative gene turns non-cooperative cheats into cooperators. This hypothesis has received support from both theoretical and genomic analyses. In contrast, with a comparative analysis across 51 diverse species, we found that genes for extracellular proteins, which are likely to act as coo...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-257679/v1

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