The interplay between relatedness and horizontal gene transfer drives the evolution of plasmid-carried public goods.
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2013
- doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0400
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public goods production; mobile genetic element; plasmid; kin selection; microbial social evolutionSujets proches
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S.É. Mc Ginty et al., « The interplay between relatedness and horizontal gene transfer drives the evolution of plasmid-carried public goods. », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.1098/rspb.2013.0400
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Plasmids carry a wide range of genes that are often involved in bacterial social behaviour. The question of why such genes are frequently mobile has received increasing attention. Here, we use an explicit population genetic approach to model the evolution of plasmid-borne bacterial public goods production. Our findings highlight the importance of both transmission and relatedness as factors driving the evolution of plasmid-borne public goods production. We partition the effects of plasmid transfer of social traits into those of infectivity and the effect of increased relatedness. Our results demonstrate that, owing to its effect on relatedness, plasmid mobility increases the invasion and stability of public goods, in a way not seen in individually beneficial traits. In addition, we show that plasmid transfer increases relatedness when public goods production is rare but this effect declines when production is common, with both scenarios leading to an increase in the frequency of plasmid-borne public goods. Plasmids remain important vectors for the spread of social genes involved in bacterial virulence thus an understanding of their dynamics is highly relevant from a public health perspective.