Timing of integration into the chromosome is critical for the fitness of an integrative and conjugative element and its bacterial host

• Saria A. McKeithen-Mead,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0132-2306

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• Alan D. Grossman

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

  * E-mail: adg@mit.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8235-7227

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