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Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?
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It has been hypothesized that horizontal gene transfer on plasmids can facilitate the evolution of cooperation, by allowing genes to jump between bacteria, and hence increase genetic relatedness at the cooperative loci. However, we show theoretically that horizontal gene transfer only appreciably increases relatedness when plasmids are rare, where there are many plasmid-free cells available to infect (many opportunities for horizontal gene transfer). In contrast, when plasmids are common, the...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/evlett/qrad003
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Evolution Letters More from this journal
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 113–120
- Publication date:
- 2023-04-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-01-31
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2056-3744
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English
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1326292
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2023-01-31
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- 2023
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- © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEN). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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