Ecological dynamics of plasmid transfer and persistence in microbial communities

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

(2021) Anastasia Kottara et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

A multispecies outbreak of carbapenem-resistant bacteria harboring the blaKPC gene in a non-classical transposon element

(2021) Aniela Wozniak et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Examining horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities

(2021) Ilana Lauren Brito   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Variability of plasmid fitness effects contributes to plasmid persistence in bacterial communities

(2021) Aida Alonso-del Valle et al.   Nature Communications

Pervasive transmission of a carbapenem resistance plasmid in the gut microbiota of hospitalized patients

(2021) Ricardo León-Sampedro et al.   Nature Microbiology

Limited and Strain-Specific Transcriptional and Growth Responses to Acquisition of a Multidrug Resistance Plasmid in Genetically Diverse Escherichia coli Lineages

(2021) Steven Dunn et al.   mSystems

The dilution effect limits plasmid horizontal transmission in multispecies bacterial communities

(2021) Anastasia Kottara et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Plasmid analysis of NDM metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales isolated in Vietnam

(2021) Aki Hirabayashi et al.   PLoS One

Conjugative plasmid transfer is limited by prophages but can be overcome by high conjugation rates

(2021) Claudia Igler et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biofilms: Hot spots of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in aquatic environments, with a focus on a new HGT mechanism

(2020) Kimihiro Abe et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Plasmids persist in a microbial community by providing fitness benefit to multiple phylotypes

(2020) Liguan Li et al.   ISME Journal

The role of hosts, plasmids and environment in determining plasmid transfer rates: A meta-analysis

(2020) Richard J. Sheppard et al.   PLASMID

A prolonged multispecies outbreak of IMP-6 carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales due to horizontal transmission of the IncN plasmid

(2020) Takuya Yamagishi et al.   Scientific Reports

Genomic Epidemiology of Complex, Multispecies, Plasmid-Borne blaKPC Carbapenemase in Enterobacterales in the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2014

(2020) Nicole Stoesser et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

High variability of plasmid uptake rates in Escherichia coli isolated from sewage and river sediments

(2020) Stefanie Heß et al.   PLoS One

Resident microbial communities inhibit growth and antibiotic-resistance evolution of Escherichia coli in human gut microbiome samples

(2020) Michael Baumgartner et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Impact of Mercury Selection and Conjugative Genetic Elements on Community Structure and Resistance Gene Transfer

(2020) James P. J. Hall et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomic engineering of the mammalian gut microbiome in situ

(2019) Carlotta Ronda et al.   NATURE METHODS

Mobile antibiotic resistome in wastewater treatment plants revealed by Nanopore metagenomic sequencing

(2019) You Che et al.   Microbiome

The Battle Within: Interactions of Bacteriophages and Bacteria in the Gastrointestinal Tract

(2019) Luisa De Sordi et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

The Ecology and Evolution of Pangenomes

(2019) Michael A. Brockhurst et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Going around in circles: virulence plasmids in enteric pathogens

(2018) Giulia Pilla et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Estimating the Transfer Range of Plasmids Encoding Antimicrobial Resistance in a Wastewater Treatment Plant Microbial Community

(2018) Liguan Li et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Evolution of Plasmid-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance in the Clinical Context

(2018) Alvaro San Millan   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Conjugative Selectivity of Plasmids Is Affected by Coexisting Recipient Candidates

(2018) Ayako Sakuda et al.   mSphere

Black Queen Evolution and Trophic Interactions Determine Plasmid Survival after the Disruption of the Conjugation Network

(2018) Johannes Cairns et al.   mSystems

Gene mobility promotes the spread of resistance in bacterial populations

(2017) Cagla Stevenson et al.   ISME Journal

Metagenomic analysis reveals wastewater treatment plants as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements

(2017) Jianhua Guo et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Persistence and reversal of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance

(2017) Allison J. Lopatkin et al.   Nature Communications

Genome Dynamics of Escherichia coli during Antibiotic Treatment: Transfer, Loss, and Persistence of Genetic Elements In situ of the Infant Gut

(2017) Andreas Porse et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Transfer and Persistence of a Multi-Drug Resistance Plasmid in situ of the Infant Gut Microbiota in the Absence of Antibiotic Treatment

(2017) Heidi Gumpert et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Adaptive modulation of antibiotic resistance through intragenomic coevolution

(2017) Michael J. Bottery et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Compensatory mutations improve general permissiveness to antibiotic resistance plasmids

(2017) Wesley Loftie-Eaton et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Conjugation is necessary for a bacterial plasmid to survive under protozoan predation

(2016) Johannes Cairns et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2016) James P. J. Hall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parallel Compensatory Evolution Stabilizes Plasmids across the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum

(2015) Ellie Harrison et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bacteriophages Limit the Existence Conditions for Conjugative Plasmids

(2015) Ellie Harrison et al.   mBio

The genetic basis of the fitness costs of antimicrobial resistance: a meta-analysis approach

(2014) Tom Vogwill et al.   Evolutionary Applications

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

(2014) Uli Klümper et al.   ISME Journal

Impact of treated wastewater irrigation on antibiotic resistance in the soil microbiome

(2013) Joao Gatica et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Top-down controls on bacterial community structure: microbial network analysis of bacteria, T4-like viruses and protists

(2013) Cheryl-Emiliane T Chow et al.   ISME Journal

Effects of predation on real-time host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics

(2012) Ville-Petri Friman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Bacteriophage selection against a plasmid-encoded sex apparatus leads to the loss of antibiotic-resistance plasmids

(2011) M. Jalasvuori et al.   Biology Letters

Conjugative plasmids: vessels of the communal gene pool

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