Compensatory mutations reducing the fitness cost of plasmid carriage occur in plant rhizosphere communities
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DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad027
Abstract: Plasmids drive bacterial evolutionary innovation by transferring ecologically important functions between lineages, but acquiring a plasmid often comes at a fitness cost to the host cell. Compensatory mutations, which ameliorate the cost of plasmid carriage,… read more here.
Keywords: fitness cost; plant rhizosphere; cost; compensatory mutations ... See more keywords