Evolution via recombination: Cell-to-cell contact facilitates larger recombination events in Streptococcus pneumoniae

• Lauren A. Cowley ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: drlacowley@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0835-7971

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• Fernanda C. Petersen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4649-247X

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• Roger Junges,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Med Jimson D. Jimenez,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-1811

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• Donald A. Morrison,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

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• William P. Hanage

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

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