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Constitutive expression of the Type VI Secretion System carries no measurable fitness cost in
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Bacterial weaponry and the ecological factors of competitive success.Essays in biochemistry · 2026Review
- Simulating the host niche: balancing complexity and control in the experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance and pathoadaptation.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2026Review
- Implications of proteome allocation constraints for understanding interbacterial antagonism.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2026Review
- Genome Evolution in Plant Pathogenic Bacteria.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Review
- Phenotypic heterogeneity optimizes trade-offs during adaptive deployment of the type VI secretion system.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Plasmids serve as vehicles and reservoirs of type VI secretion systems.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Functional replacement of ancestral antibacterial secretion system in a bacterial plant pathogen.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Constitutive expression of the Type VI Secretion System carries no measurable fitness cost inEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- No fitness cost entailed by type VI secretion system synthesis, assembly, contraction, or disassembly in enteroaggregativeJournal of bacteriology · 2023Article
- Regulation of type VI secretion systems at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional and posttranslational level.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2023Review
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Abstract
The Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) is a widespread and highly effective mechanism of microbial warfare; it confers the ability to efficiently kill susceptible cells within close proximity. Due to its large physical size, complexity, and ballistic basis for intoxication, it has widely been assumed to incur significant growth costs in the absence of improved competitive outcomes. In this study, we precisely examine the fitness costs of constitutive T6SS firing in the bacterium
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