Mutators can drive the evolution of multi-resistance to antibiotics

• Danna R. Gifford ,

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

  * E-mail: danna.gifford@manchester.ac.uk

  Affiliations Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4990-8816

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• Ernesto Berríos-Caro,

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

  Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2080-1273

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• Christine Joerres,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal Hospital, London, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5601-4474

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• Marc Suñé,

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

  Current address: Nordita, Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

  Affiliation Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Jessica H. Forsyth,

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

  Affiliation Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Anish Bhattacharyya,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Tobias Galla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

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• Christopher G. Knight

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-4267

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