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Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria, but may promote broad pathogen host-range
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Horizontal gene transfer via plasmids could favour cooperation in bacteria, because transfer of a cooperative gene turns non-cooperative cheats into cooperators. This hypothesis has received support from theoretical, genomic and experimental analyses. In contrast, with a comparative analysis across 51 diverse species, we found that genes for extracellular proteins, which are likely to act as cooperative ‘public goods’, were not more likely to be carried on either: (i) plasmids compared to chr...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1038/s41559-021-01573-2
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- Springer Nature
- Journal:
- Nature Ecology and Evolution More from this journal
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- 1624-1636
- Publication date:
- 2021-11-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-08-02
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2397-334X
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English
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1189412
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pubs:1189412
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2021-08-03
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- Dewar et al
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2021
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Springer Nature at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01573-2
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