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Plasmid stability is enhanced by higher-frequency pulses of positive selection.
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- Plasmid stability is enhanced by higher-frequency pulses of positive selection.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Plasmids accelerate bacterial adaptation by sharing ecologically important traits between lineages. However, explaining plasmid stability in bacterial populations is challenging owing to their associated costs. Previous theoretical and experimental studies suggest that pulsed positive selection may explain plasmid stability by favouring gene mobility and promoting compensatory evolution to ameliorate plasmid cost. Here we test how the frequency of pulsed positive selection affected the dynamics of a mercury-resistance plasmid, pQBR103, in experimental populations of
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