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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Main Authors: Henriette Lyng Røder, Urvish Trivedi, Jakob Russel, Kasper Nørskov Kragh, Jakob Herschend, Ida Thalsø-Madsen, Tim Tolker-Nielsen, Thomas Bjarnsholt, Mette Burmølle, Jonas Stenløkke Madsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-10-01
Series:npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00249-w