The dilution effect limits plasmid horizontal transmission in multispecies bacterial communities

The proficiency of the original host species determines community-level plasmid dynamics

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Positive Selection Inhibits Plasmid Coexistence in Bacterial Genomes

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The Ecology and Evolution of Pangenomes

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Conjugation efficiency depends on intra and intercellular interactions between distinct plasmids: Plasmids promote the immigration of other plasmids but repress co-colonizing plasmids

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Quantifying dilution and amplification in a community of hosts for tick-borne pathogens

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Source–sink plasmid transfer dynamics maintain gene mobility in soil bacterial communities

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Dissemination of Antimicrobial Resistance in Microbial Ecosystems through Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2016) Christian J. H. von Wintersdorff et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Plasmid transfer in biofilms: a perspective on limitations and opportunities

(2016) Thibault Stalder et al.   npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Environmentally co-occurring mercury resistance plasmids are genetically and phenotypically diverse and confer variable context-dependent fitness effects

(2015) James P.J. Hall et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biodiversity inhibits parasites: Broad evidence for the dilution effect

(2015) David J. Civitello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Broad host range plasmids can invade an unexpectedly diverse fraction of a soil bacterial community

(2014) Uli Klümper et al.   ISME Journal

Plasmids and the spread of resistance

(2013) Alessandra Carattoli   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Host and parasite diversity jointly control disease risk in complex communities

(2013) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness

(2012) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Antibiotic resistance in the environment: a link to the clinic?

(2010) Gerard D Wright   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Mobility of Plasmids

(2010) C. Smillie et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments

(2010) Heather K. Allen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Conjugative plasmids: vessels of the communal gene pool

(2009) A. Norman et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease

(2009) F. Keesing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity and disease: community structure drives parasite transmission and host fitness

(2008) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS