ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2020
Dominance Between Plasmids Determines the Extent of Biofilm Formation.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Horizontal and vertical gene transfer shape the plasmid host range in surface-associated microbial systems.iScience · 2026Article
- Polymyxin-Resistant Escherichia coli Found in Vegetables from Brazil: An Emerging Public Health Concern.Current microbiology · 2026Article
- Growth in a biofilm promotes conjugation of amSphere · 2023Article
- A mathematician's guide to plasmids: an introduction to plasmid biology for modellers.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2023Review
- Microbial applications for sustainable space exploration beyond low Earth orbit.NPJ microgravity · 2023Review
- The Impact of Non-Pathogenic Bacteria on the Spread of Virulence and Resistance Genes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Driving forces shaping the microbial ecology in meat packing plants.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Harmful behaviour through plasmid transfer: a successful evolutionary strategy of bacteria harbouring conjugative plasmids.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The Perfect Condition for the Rising of Superbugs: Person-to-Person Contact and Antibiotic Use Are the Key Factors Responsible for the Positive Correlation between Antibiotic Resistance Gene Diversity and Virulence Gene Diversity in Human Metagenomes.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Conjugation dynamics depend on both the plasmid acquisition cost and the fitness cost.Molecular systems biology · 2021Article
- The ecology of plasmid-coded antibiotic resistance: a basic framework for experimental research and modeling.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021Review
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Bacterial biofilms have an impact in medical and industrial environments because they often confer protection to bacteria against harmful agents, and constitute a source from which microorganisms can disperse. Conjugative plasmids can enhance bacterial ability to form biofilms because conjugative pili act as adhesion factors. However, plasmids may interact with each other, either facilitating or inhibiting plasmid transfer. Accordingly, we asked whether effects on plasmid transfer also impacts biofilm formation. We measured biofilm formation of
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