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From: Ecology determines how low antibiotic concentration impacts community composition and horizontal transfer of resistance genes

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Conceptual representation of the study. Experimental bacterial community, containing 62 strains and RP4 plasmid only in donor E. coli at the beginning of the experiment, was exposed to the following manipulations (present/absent): spatial structure, ciliate predation and sub-MIC kanamycin concentration. During the 40-day microcosm experiment, we followed community dynamics, bacterial community structure, and spread of the plasmid (a result of horizontal gene transfer). The dashed lines denote potential interactions between the ecological factors or ecological factor-dependent plasmid transfer

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