Positive selection and compensatory adaptation interact to stabilize non-transmissible plasmids

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Millan, A San ^a   Pena Miller R ^b   Toll Riera, M ^c   Halbert, Z V ^d   McLean, A R ^a   Cooper, B S ^c,d   Maclean, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASMID;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL DIVISION; CLONE; COMPENSATORY ADAPTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84923368060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6208     Document Type: Article

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