The evolution of a conjugative plasmid and its ability to increase bacterial fitness.

Conjugative plasmids are extra-chromosomal DNA elements that are capable of horizontal transmission and are found in many natural isolated bacteria. Although plasmids may carry beneficial genes to their bacterial host, they may also cause a fitness cost. In this work, we studied the evolution of the...

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Autor principal: Dionisio, F. (author)
Outros Autores: Conceição, I.C. (author), Marques, A.C.R. (author), Fernandes, L. (author), Gordo, I. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2010
Assuntos:
Plasmid evolution
Host-parasite
Antibiotic resistance
Escherichia-coli
Carriage
Escherichia coli/genetics/physiology
Plasmids/physiology
Evolution
Salmonella enterica/genetics/physiology
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/89
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:arca.igc.gulbenkian.pt:10400.7/89

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