Estimating the transfer rates of bacterial plasmids with an adapted Luria–Delbrück fluctuation analysis

• Olivia Kosterlitz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: livkost@uw.edu (OK); kerrb@uw.edu (BK)

  Affiliations Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-9595

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• Adamaris Muñiz Tirado,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Claire Wate,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Clint Elg,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

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• Ivana Bozic,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Eva M. Top,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

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• Benjamin Kerr

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: livkost@uw.edu (OK); kerrb@uw.edu (BK)

  Affiliations Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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