Indirect Fitness Benefits Enable the Spread of Host Genes Promoting Costly Transfer of Beneficial Plasmids.

Dimitriu, Tatiana

Indirect Fitness Benefits Enable the Spread of Host Genes Promoting Costly Transfer of Beneficial Plasmids. [electronic resource] - PLoS biology 06 2016 - e1002478 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article

1545-7885

10.1371/journal.pbio.1002478 doi


Algorithms
Bacteria--genetics
Conjugation, Genetic
Drug Resistance, Bacterial--genetics
Escherichia coli--genetics
Evolution, Molecular
Gene Transfer, Horizontal
Genes, Bacterial--genetics
Genetic Fitness
Genetics, Population
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences--genetics
Models, Genetic
Plasmids--genetics
Selection, Genetic