Segregational drift hinders the evolution of antibiotic resistance on polyploid replicons.

The emergence of antibiotic resistance under treatment depends on the availability of resistance alleles and their establishment in the population. Novel resistance alleles are encoded either in chromosomal or extrachromosomal genetic elements; both types may be present in multiple copies within the...

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Main Authors: Ana Garoña, Mario Santer, Nils F Hülter, Hildegard Uecker, Tal Dagan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010829&type=printable