CRISPR-Cas is beneficial in plasmid competition, but limited by competitor toxin–antitoxin activity when horizontally transferred

• David Sünderhauf ,

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

  * E-mail: david@sunderhauf.net (DS); C.van-Houte@exeter.ac.uk (SvH)

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8007-3351

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• Jahn R. Ringger,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing, Data curation

  Current address: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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

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• Leighton J. Payne,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Rafael Pinilla-Redondo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• William H. Gaze,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom

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• Sam P. Brown,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Stineke van Houte

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: david@sunderhauf.net (DS); C.van-Houte@exeter.ac.uk (SvH)

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

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