ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2022
Ecological dynamics of plasmid transfer and persistence in microbial communities.
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- From hijackers to architects: the role of prophages in bacterial genome evolution.Journal of bacteriology · 2026Review
- Plastic leachates drive conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2026Article
- A family of endonucleases blocks nanotube-mediated plasmid exchange.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
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- PlasAnn: a curated plasmid-specific database and annotation pipeline for standardized gene and function analysis.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Beyond borders: plasmids drive a shared antibiotic resistome in European urban water systems.Microbiome · 2026Article
- Restaurant occupational exposure affects the profiles of oral and gut pathobiomes and resistomes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Clinical and Environmental Plasmids: Antibiotic Resistance, Virulence, Mobility, and ESKAPEE Pathogens.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Comparative genomics of blood and faecal E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates from neonates with bloodstream infections in Tanzania.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Exclusion systems preserve host cell homeostasis and fitness, ensuring successful dissemination of conjugative plasmids and associated resistance genes.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- A roadmap to understanding and anticipating microbial gene transfer in soil communities.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025Review
- Plasmid-driven strategies for clone success in Escherichia coli.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Plasmids are a major driver of horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes, allowing the sharing of ecologically important accessory traits between distantly related bacterial taxa. Within microbial communities, interspecies transfer of conjugative plasmids can rapidly drive the generation genomic innovation and diversification. Recent studies are starting to shed light on how the microbial community context, that is, the bacterial diversity together with interspecies interactions that occur within a community, can alter the dynamics of conjugative plasmid transfer and persistence. Here, I summarise the latest research exploring how community ecology can both facilitate and impose barriers to the spread of conjugative plasmids within complex microbial communities. Ultimately, the fate of plasmids within communities is unlikely to be determined by any one individual host, rather it will depend on the interacting factors imposed by the community in which it is embedded.
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