Ecological and evolutionary solutions to the plasmid paradox

Beyond horizontal gene transfer: the role of plasmids in bacterial evolution

(2021) Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2021) Anastasia Kottara et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Conjugation dynamics depend on both the plasmid acquisition cost and the fitness cost

(2021) Hannah Prensky et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Piggybacking on Niche Adaptation Improves the Maintenance of Multidrug-Resistance Plasmids

(2021) Julia Kloos et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evidence for selection in the abundant accessory gene content of a prokaryote pangenome

(2021) Fiona J Whelan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Positive Selection Inhibits Plasmid Coexistence in Bacterial Genomes

(2021) Laura Carrilero et al.   mBio

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

Evolutionary mechanisms that determine which bacterial genes are carried on plasmids

(2021) Sonja Lehtinen et al.   Evolution Letters

The dilution effect limits plasmid horizontal transmission in multispecies bacterial communities

(2021) Anastasia Kottara et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Increased copy number couples the evolution of plasmid horizontal transmission and plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance

(2021) Tatiana Dimitriu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Essential gene acquisition destabilizes plasmid inheritance

(2021) Tanita Wein et al.   PLoS Genetics

Plasmid fitness costs are caused by specific genetic conflicts enabling resolution by compensatory mutation

(2021) James P. J. Hall et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2020) Richard J. Sheppard et al.   PLASMID

Effect of donor-recipient relatedness on the plasmid conjugation frequency: a meta-analysis

(2020) Jesse B. Alderliesten et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Coevolution of host–plasmid pairs facilitates the emergence of novel multidrug resistance

(2020) Hannah Jordt et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extensive antimicrobial resistance mobilization via multicopy plasmid encapsidation mediated by temperate phages

(2020) Lorena Rodríguez-Rubio et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Genetic dominance governs the evolution and spread of mobile genetic elements in bacteria

(2020) Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Host dependent maintenance of a blaNDM-1-encoding plasmid in clinical Escherichia coli isolates

(2020) João Alves Gama et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Plasmid Interactions Can Improve Plasmid Persistence in Bacterial Populations

(2020) João Alves Gama et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Mobile Compensatory Mutations Promote Plasmid Survival

(2019) Martin Zwanzig et al.   mSystems

Interactions between plasmids and other mobile genetic elements affect their transmission and persistence

(2019) Francisco Dionisio et al.   PLASMID

Extremely fast amelioration of plasmid fitness costs by multiple functionally diverse pathways

(2019) James P. J. Hall et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Plasmid‐chromosome cross‐talks

(2019) Ludovic Vial et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of Plasmid-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance in the Clinical Context

(2018) Alvaro San Millan   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Evolutionary emergence of infectious diseases in heterogeneous host populations

(2018) Hélène Chabas et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Horizontal Plasmid Transfer by Transformation in Escherichia coli: Environmental Factors and Possible Mechanisms

(2018) Haruka Hasegawa et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Conjugative Selectivity of Plasmids Is Affected by Coexisting Recipient Candidates

(2018) Ayako Sakuda et al.   mSphere

Gene mobility promotes the spread of resistance in bacterial populations

(2017) Cagla Stevenson et al.   ISME Journal

Sampling the mobile gene pool: innovation via horizontal gene transfer in bacteria

(2017) James P. J. Hall et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multiple plasmid interference – Pledging allegiance to my enemy's enemy

(2017) João Alves Gama et al.   PLASMID

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

(2017) João Alves Gama et al.   PLASMID

Co-resident plasmids travel together

(2017) João Alves Gama et al.   PLASMID

Persistence and reversal of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance

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

Compensatory mutations improve general permissiveness to antibiotic resistance plasmids

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

Positive selection inhibits gene mobilization and transfer in soil bacterial communities

(2017) James P. J. Hall et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Emerging patterns of plasmid-host coevolution that stabilize antibiotic resistance

(2017) Thibault Stalder et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2016) Johannes Cairns et al.   Biology Letters

Multi-host environments select for host-generalist conjugative plasmids

(2016) Anastasia Kottara et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

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

Combined Analysis of Variation in Core, Accessory and Regulatory Genome Regions Provides a Super-Resolution View into the Evolution of Bacterial Populations

(2016) Alan McNally et al.   PLoS Genetics

Multicopy plasmids potentiate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria

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

Parallel Compensatory Evolution Stabilizes Plasmids across the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum

(2015) Ellie Harrison et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Paths That Expand Plasmid Host-Range: Implications for Spread of Antibiotic Resistance

(2015) Wesley Loftie-Eaton et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Structural biology of the Gram-negative bacterial conjugation systems

(2015) Aravindan Ilangovan et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteriophages Limit the Existence Conditions for Conjugative Plasmids

(2015) Ellie Harrison et al.   mBio

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

(2015) Alvaro San Millan et al.   Nature Communications

Migration and horizontal gene transfer divide microbial genomes into multiple niches

(2015) Rene Niehus et al.   Nature Communications

Functional relationships between plasmids and their significance for metabolism and symbiotic performance of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii

(2014) Grażyna Stasiak et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED GENETICS

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

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

Negative Feedback and Transcriptional Overshooting in a Regulatory Network for Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2014) Raul Fernandez-Lopez et al.   PLoS Genetics

Social behavior and decision making in bacterial conjugation

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

Combined treatment with the antibiotics kanamycin and streptomycin promotes the conjugation ofEscherichia coli

(2013) Peng-Yi Zhang et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2013) Alvaro San Millan et al.   ISME Journal

A Plasmid-Encoded Phosphatase Regulates Bacillus subtilis Biofilm Architecture, Sporulation, and Genetic Competence

(2013) V. Parashar et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Exploring the costs of horizontal gene transfer

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

Plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer is a coevolutionary process

(2012) Ellie Harrison et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Repeated, Selection-Driven Genome Reduction of Accessory Genes in Experimental Populations

(2012) Ming-Chun Lee et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

(2011) M. Jalasvuori et al.   Biology Letters

What traits are carried on mobile genetic elements and why?

(2010) D J Rankin et al.   HEREDITY

Shifts in the host range of a promiscuous plasmid through parallel evolution of its replication initiation protein

(2010) Masahiro Sota et al.   ISME Journal

Mobility of Plasmids

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

Host Mixing and Disease Emergence

(2009) Rebecca Benmayor et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Conjugative plasmids: vessels of the communal gene pool

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