Positive epistasis between co-infecting plasmids promotes plasmid survival in bacterial populations

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 601-612

  San Millan, Alvaro ^a   Heilbron, Karl ^a   MacLean, R Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; epistasis; evolutionary genetics; experimental evolution; horizontal gene pool; plasmid

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE DOSAGE; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84894324351     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.182     Document Type: Article

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