Devani Romero Picazo

Regulatory and metabolic integration accompany plasmid domestication during adaptation to a plant-associated lifestyle

This study shows that domesticated plasmids in Pantoea agglomerans enhance bacterial fitness and metabolic integration with the chromosome during adaptation to a plant-associated lifestyle.

Evolution of plasmid domestication in plant-associated Pantoea: massive gain of genetic redundancy followed by differential gene loss

This study shows that plasmids in Pantoea bacteria evolve into chromids through massive gene gain and differential gene loss, leading to genetic redundancy and stable inheritance.