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Mobile genetic elements shape the evolution of wild bacterial pangenomes in the face of biotic and abiotic selective pressures in the soil
Angeliqua P. Montoya, Hanna Kehlet-Delgado, Kyson T. Jensen…·Stephanie S. Porter
The paper investigates the phylogenetic congruence of mobile genetic elements and host chromosomes in wild bacteria, finding that they often co-inherit vertically and that environmental factors influence horizontal transfer.