Interspecific competition can drive the loss of conjugative plasmids from a focal species in a microbial community
D. Walker-Sünderhauf, U. Klümper, W. H. Gaze, E. R. Westra, S. van Houte
The paper shows that interspecific competition can reduce plasmid maintenance in microbial communities by increasing plasmid costs and accelerating plasmid loss from focal species.
bioRxiv · Jun 6, 2022Microbiology