The Evolution of Collective Restraint: Policing and Obedience among Non-conjugative Plasmids

Kyriakos Kentzoglanakis; Diana García López; Sam P. Brown; Richard A. Goldstein

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003036

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The Evolution of Collective Restraint: Policing and Obedience among Non-conjugative Plasmids

Kyriakos Kentzoglanakis,

Affiliation Division of Mathematical Biology, MRC National Institute of Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
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Diana García López,

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Sam P. Brown,

Affiliation Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Richard A. Goldstein

* E-mail: rgoldst@nimr.mrc.ac.uk

Affiliation Division of Mathematical Biology, MRC National Institute of Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
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The Evolution of Collective Restraint: Policing and Obedience among Non-conjugative Plasmids

Kyriakos Kentzoglanakis,
Diana García López,
Sam P. Brown,
Richard A. Goldstein

Published: April 18, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003036

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Source code for simulations

Posted by kyriakos on 04 Sep 2013 at 10:13 GMT

A note from one of the paper's authors : the source code for the stochastic agent-based simulations presented in this paper has been made publicly available and can be found at https://github.com/kkentz... .

No competing interests declared.

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