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

Modeling and quantifying frequency-dependent fitness in microbial populations with cross-feeding interactions

(2015) Noah Ribeck et al.   EVOLUTION

How context dependent are species interactions?

(2014) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Complete Nucleotide Sequence and Analysis of Two Conjugative Broad Host Range Plasmids from a Marine Microbial Biofilm

(2014) Peter Norberg et al.   PLoS One

Non-additive costs and interactions alter the competitive dynamics of co-occurring ecologically distinct plasmids

(2014) E. R. Morton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Selection of a Multidrug Resistance Plasmid by Sublethal Levels of Antibiotics and Heavy Metals

(2014) E. Gullberg et al.   mBio

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

(2014) A. San Millan et al.   Nature Communications

Metabolic Erosion Primarily Through Mutation Accumulation, and Not Tradeoffs, Drives Limited Evolution of Substrate Specificity in Escherichia coli

(2014) Nicholas Leiby et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Complete Sequence of pOZ176, a 500-Kilobase IncP-2 Plasmid Encoding IMP-9-Mediated Carbapenem Resistance, from Outbreak Isolate Pseudomonas aeruginosa 96

(2013) Jianhui Xiong et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Diverse Broad-Host-Range Plasmids from Freshwater Carry Few Accessory Genes

(2013) Celeste J. Brown et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Community-wide plasmid gene mobilization and selection

(2013) Vladimir Sentchilo et al.   ISME Journal

Exploring the costs of horizontal gene transfer

(2013) David A. Baltrus   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

The complete genome sequences of four new IncN plasmids from wastewater treatment plant effluent provide new insights into IncN plasmid diversity and evolution

(2012) Felix Eikmeyer et al.   PLASMID

Insights into the bovine rumen plasmidome

(2012) A. B. Kav et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer is a coevolutionary process

(2012) Ellie Harrison et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Broad-Host-Range Plasmids from Agricultural Soils Have IncP-1 Backbones with Diverse Accessory Genes

(2011) Diya Sen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2011) T. G. Platt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacteria-Phage Antagonistic Coevolution in Soil

(2011) P. Gomez et al.   SCIENCE

Aquatic systems: maintaining, mixing and mobilising antimicrobial resistance?

(2011) Nick G.H. Taylor et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Dynamic Evolution of Pathogenicity Revealed by Sequencing and Comparative Genomics of 19 Pseudomonas syringae Isolates

(2011) David A. Baltrus et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A thermophilic bacterial origin and subsequent constraints by redox, light and salinity on the evolution of the microbial mercuric reductase

(2010) Tamar Barkay et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sequencing and comparative analysis of IncP-1α antibiotic resistance plasmids reveal a highly conserved backbone and differences within accessory regions

(2010) Rafael Szczepanowski et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Mobility of Plasmids

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

Pseudomonas Genome Database: improved comparative analysis and population genomics capability for Pseudomonas genomes

(2010) G. L. Winsor et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Have we underestimated the importance of humans in the biogeography of free-living terrestrial microorganisms?

(2009) David M. Wilkinson   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Conjugative plasmids: vessels of the communal gene pool

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

Environment can alter selection in host–parasite interactions

(2009) Justyna Wolinska et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Heterogeneous Selection in a Spatially Structured Environment Affects Fitness Tradeoffs of Plasmid Carriage in Pseudomonads

(2008) F. R. Slater et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

(2008) Ramy K Aziz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Spatial structure and nutrients promote invasion of IncP-1 plasmids in bacterial populations

(2008) Randal E Fox et al.   ISME Journal

Chromosomal Toxin-Antitoxin Systems May Act as Antiaddiction Modules

(2008) M. Saavedra De Bast et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY