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

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.

SUBMITTER: Jamieson-Lane A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8691605 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature