Mobile DNA can drive lineage extinction in prokaryotic populations

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2422-2431

  Rankin, D J ^a,b   Bichsel, M ^a,b   Wagner, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Epidemiology; Evolutionary suicide; Plasmids; Population ecology; Tragedy of the commons

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PLASMID; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; RETROPOSON; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RETROELEMENTS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77958557453     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02106.x     Document Type: Article

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