A cooperative virulence plasmid imposes a high fitness cost under conditions that induce pathogenesis

Bacterial cooperation controlled by mobile elements: kin selection and infectivity are part of the same process

(2011) D J Rankin et al.   HEREDITY

HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER AND THE EVOLUTION OF BACTERIAL COOPERATION

(2010) Sorcha E. Mc Ginty et al.   EVOLUTION

What traits are carried on mobile genetic elements and why?

(2010) D J Rankin et al.   HEREDITY

Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Secretome Drives the Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation and Virulence

(2009) Teresa Nogueira et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

GREENBEARDS

(2009) Andy Gardner et al.   EVOLUTION

Thein vitrofitness cost of antimicrobial resistance inEscherichia colivaries with the growth conditions

(2009) Andreas Petersen et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Competition favours reduced cost of plasmids to host bacteria

(2009) Rembrandt J F Haft et al.   ISME Journal

Novel Toxin-Antitoxin System Composed of Serine Protease and AAA-ATPase Homologues Determines the High Level of Stability and Incompatibility of the Tumor-Inducing Plasmid pTiC58

(2009) S. Yamamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Cooperation and virulence of clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations

(2009) T. Kohler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Kin competition and the evolution of cooperation

(2009) Thomas G. Platt et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Progress towards understanding the fate of plasmids in bacterial communities

(2008) Frances R. Slater et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The repABC plasmid family

(2008) Miguel A. Cevallos et al.   PLASMID

Cell–cell signaling and the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid copy number fluctuations

(2008) Katherine M. Pappas   PLASMID