Essential gene acquisition destabilizes plasmid inheritance

• Tanita Wein ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tanita Wein, Yiqing Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tanita.wein@weizmann.ac.il

  Current address: Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

  Affiliation Institute of General Microbiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4561-9654

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• Yiqing Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tanita Wein, Yiqing Wang

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

  Affiliation Institute of General Microbiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4816-5176

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• Myriam Barz,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of General Microbiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-4779

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• Fenna T. Stücker,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of General Microbiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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• Katrin Hammerschmidt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of General Microbiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0172-8995

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• Tal Dagan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of General Microbiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9042-192X

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