The interplay between relatedness and horizontal gene transfer drives the evolution of plasmid-carried public goods

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mc Ginty, Sorcha É ^a,b   Lehmann, Laurent ^c   Brown, Sam P ^d,e   Rankin, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kin selection; Microbial social evolution; Mobile genetic element; Plasmid; Public goods production

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VECTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMID BORNE BACTERIAL PUBLIC GOODS PRODUCTION; RELATEDNESS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION GENETICS;

BACTERIUM; GENE TRANSFER; KIN SELECTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLASMID; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; SELECTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84878342227     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0400     Document Type: Article

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