Ecological theory sheds light on plasmid diversity and dynamics

• Rémi Tuffet ,

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

  * E-mail: remi.tuffet@sorbonne-universite.fr (R.T), samuel.venner@univ-lyon1.fr (S.V)

  ¶¤ Current address: Institut d’écologie et des sciences de l’environnement de Paris, Community and Ecosystem Ecology Department, Sorbonne Université Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

  Affiliations Laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Évolutive, Evolutionary Ecology Department, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Bacteriology Department, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6097-2210

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• Emma Acacia,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Évolutive, Evolutionary Ecology Department, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0721-534X

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• Charles Coluzzi,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Évolutive, Evolutionary Ecology Department, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2238-0836

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• Xavier Charpentier,

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

  Affiliation Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Bacteriology Department, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9039-8021

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• Thomas Koffel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Koffel, Samuel Venner

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

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Évolutive, Evolutionary Ecology Department, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

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• Samuel Venner

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Koffel, Samuel Venner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: remi.tuffet@sorbonne-universite.fr (R.T), samuel.venner@univ-lyon1.fr (S.V)

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Évolutive, Evolutionary Ecology Department, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

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