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Bacterial species and surface structures shape gene transfer and the transcriptional landscape during active conjugation
Galain C. Williams, Jillian C Danne, Simon Crawford…·Dena Lyras
The paper shows active conjugation triggers host transcriptional changes, which are blocked by capsule expression but overcome by plasmid-driven single-cell variation.
DOI 10.1101/2025.06.12.659224