Plasmid persistence: costs, benefits, and the plasmid paradox

Primates, Lice and Bacteria: Speciation and Genome Evolution in the Symbionts of Hominid Lice

(2017) Bret M. Boyd et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Spatial distribution of high copy number plasmids in bacteria

(2017) Yong Wang   PLASMID

The evolution of plasmid stability: Are infectious transmission and compensatory evolution competing evolutionary trajectories?

(2017) James P.J. Hall et al.   PLASMID

Metabolic Compensation of Fitness Costs Is a General Outcome for Antibiotic-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mutants Overexpressing Efflux Pumps

(2017) Jorge Olivares Pacheco et al.   mBio

Epistasis and the Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance

(2017) Alex Wong   Frontiers in Microbiology

Emerging patterns of plasmid-host coevolution that stabilize antibiotic resistance

(2017) Thibault Stalder et al.   Scientific Reports

Low biological cost of carbapenemase-encoding plasmids following transfer from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Escherichia coli

(2016) Maria Chiara Di Luca et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Survival and Evolution of a Large Multidrug Resistance Plasmid in New Clinical Bacterial Hosts

(2016) Andreas Porse et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolved plasmid-host interactions reduce plasmid interference cost

(2016) Hirokazu Yano et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Plasmid transfer in biofilms: a perspective on limitations and opportunities

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

Multicopy plasmids potentiate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria

(2016) Alvaro San Millan et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

In VivoTransmission of an IncA/C Plasmid in Escherichia coli Depends on Tetracycline Concentration, and Acquisition of the Plasmid Results in a Variable Cost of Fitness

(2015) Timothy J. Johnson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Dynamics of bacterial insertion sequences: can transposition bursts help the elements persist?

(2015) Yue Wu et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Co-occurrence of resistance genes to antibiotics, biocides and metals reveals novel insights into their co-selection potential

(2015) Chandan Pal et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Microbial Evolution: Towards Resolving the Plasmid Paradox

(2015) R. Craig MacLean et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Parallel Compensatory Evolution Stabilizes Plasmids across the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum

(2015) Ellie Harrison et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Interactions between horizontally acquired genes create a fitness cost in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2015) Alvaro San Millan et al.   Nature Communications

Genomics of microbial plasmids: classification and identification based on replication and transfer systems and host taxonomy

(2015) Masaki Shintani et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Persistence of a pKPN3-Like CTX-M-15-Encoding IncFIIK Plasmid in a Klebsiella pneumonia ST17 Host during Two Years of Intestinal Colonization

(2015) Iren Høyland Löhr et al.   PLoS One

Segregational Instability inE. Coliof Expression Plasmids Carrying Human Interferon Gamma Gene and its 3’-End Truncated Variants

(2014) M. Popov et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT

The IncI1 plasmid carrying the blaCTX-M-1 gene persists in in vitro culture of a Escherichia coli strain from broilers

(2014) Egil AJ Fischer et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2014) Tom Vogwill et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Plasmid-Encoded Pgp3 Is a Major Virulence Factor for Chlamydia muridarum To Induce Hydrosalpinx in Mice

(2014) Yuanjun Liu et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

(2014) Jessica M. A. Blair et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanisms of plasmid segregation: Have multicopy plasmids been overlooked?

(2014) Samuel Million-Weaver et al.   PLASMID

Plasmid-Encoded Tetracycline Efflux Pump Protein Alters Bacterial Stress Responses and Ecological Fitness of Acinetobacter oleivorans

(2014) Hyerim Hong et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Examination of Prokaryotic Multipartite Genome Evolution through Experimental Genome Reduction

(2014) George C. diCenzo et al.   PLoS Genetics

Social behavior and decision making in bacterial conjugation

(2014) Günther Koraimann et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence: a Successful or Deleterious Association in the Bacterial World?

(2013) A. Beceiro et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Plasmids and the spread of resistance

(2013) Alessandra Carattoli   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Positive epistasis between co-infecting plasmids promotes plasmid survival in bacterial populations

(2013) Alvaro San Millan et al.   ISME Journal

Speedy speciation in a bacterial microcosm: new species can arise as frequently as adaptations within a species

(2013) Alexander F Koeppel et al.   ISME Journal

Fitness costs of various mobile genetic elements in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

(2013) I. Starikova et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

New quantitative methods for measuring plasmid loss rates reveal unexpected stability

(2013) Billy T.C. Lau et al.   PLASMID

Exploring the costs of horizontal gene transfer

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

Persistence of Transferable Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase Resistance in the Absence of Antibiotic Pressure

(2012) Jennifer L. Cottell et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Fitness of Escherichia coli strains carrying expressed and partially silent IncN and IncP1 plasmids

(2012) Bruce Humphrey et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Integration of DNA into bacterial chromosomes from plasmids without a counter-selection marker

(2012) John T. Heap et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer is a coevolutionary process

(2012) Ellie Harrison et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance; Interactions between Human, Animal, and Environmental Ecologies

(2012) Laurent Poirel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Measuring the Rate of Conjugal Plasmid Transfer in a Bacterial Population Using Quantitative PCR

(2011) Zhenmao Wan et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The evolution of plasmid-carried antibiotic resistance

(2011) Fabian Svara et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Toxins-antitoxins: diversity, evolution and function

(2011) Finbarr Hayes et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Pervasive Sign Epistasis between Conjugative Plasmids and Drug-Resistance Chromosomal Mutations

(2011) Rui F. Silva et al.   PLoS Genetics

What traits are carried on mobile genetic elements and why?

(2010) D J Rankin et al.   HEREDITY

Inducible expression eliminates the fitness cost of vancomycin resistance in enterococci

(2010) M.-L. Foucault et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Introducing the bacterial ‘chromid’: not a chromosome, not a plasmid

(2010) Peter W. Harrison et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Plasmid encoded antibiotic resistance: acquisition and transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria

(2008) P M Bennett   BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Progress towards understanding the fate of plasmids in bacterial communities

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