Comment on “Indirect Fitness Benefits Enable the Spread of Host Genes Promoting Costly Transfer of Beneficial Plasmids”

Alastair Jamieson-Lane and Bernd Blasius

PLOS Biology, 2021, vol. 19, issue 12, 1-5

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001449

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