Piggybacking on niche-adaptation reduces the cost of multidrug resistance plasmids
J. Kloos, J. A. Gama, J. Hegstad, O. Samuelsen, P. J. Johnsen
The paper shows that chromosomal mutations in E. coli reduce the cost of multidrug resistance plasmids by downregulating plasmid gene expression during niche adaptation.
bioRxiv · Oct 23, 2020Microbiology