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Comment on 'Indirect Fitness Benefits Enable the Spread of Host Genes Promoting Costly Transfer of Beneficial Plasmids'.
| Title: | Comment on 'Indirect Fitness Benefits Enable the Spread of Host Genes Promoting Costly Transfer of Beneficial Plasmids'. |
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| Authors: | Alastair Jamieson-Lane, Bernd Blasius |
| Source: | PLoS Biology, Vol 19, Iss 12, p e3001449 (2021) |
| Publisher Information: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021. |
| Publication Year: | 2021 |
| Collection: | LCC:Biology (General) |
| Subject Terms: | Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| Description: | Plasmid transfer contributes significantly to bacterial evolution, but the forces selecting such generosity are poorly understood; this Formal Comment revisits a study which examined these forces both analytically and experimentally, making a correction to the algebra and reaching strikingly different results. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1544-9173 1545-7885 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1544-9173; https://doaj.org/toc/1545-7885 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001449 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/534b4ded98664c2d8c802c0d43bcb77a |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.534b4ded98664c2d8c802c0d43bcb77a |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 15449173 15457885 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001449 |