Tradeoff between horizontal and vertical modes of transmission in bacterial plasmids

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 315-329

  Turner, Paul E ^a,b   Cooper, Vaughn S ^a   Lenski, Richard E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Conjugation; Escherichia coil; Experimental evolution; Host density; Parasite; Plasmid; Tradeoff; Transmission mode; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PARASITE; EVOLUTION; MODELLING; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMID; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA;

EID: 0031922777     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb01634.x     Document Type: Article

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