Microbial Evolution: Towards Resolving the Plasmid Paradox.
Plasmids play a key role in bacterial evolution by providing bacteria with new and important functions, such as antibiotic resistance. New research shows how bacterial regulatory evolution can stabilize bacteria-plasmid associations and catalyze evolutionary innovation.
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. Electronic address: craig.maclean@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
R Craig
RC
MacLean
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
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San Millan
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D010957:Plasmids / Q000502:physiology*; D011551:Pseudomonas fluorescens / Q000502:physiology*