Plasmid streamlining drives the extinction of antibiotic resistance plasmids under selection for horizontal transmission

• Andrew C. Matthews,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom

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• Sonja Lehtinen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Tatiana Dimitriu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: td79@st-andrews.ac.uk

  Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2622

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