Biofilms can act as plasmid reserves in the absence of plasmid specific selection
Abstract Plasmids facilitate rapid bacterial adaptation by shuttling a wide variety of beneficial traits across microbial communities. However, under non-selective conditions, maintaining a plasmid can be costly to the host cell. Nonetheless, plasmids are ubiquitous in nature where bacteria adopt th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-10-01
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Series: | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00249-w |