Effect of donor-recipient relatedness on the plasmid conjugation frequency: a meta-analysis.
Jesse B AlderliestenSarah J N DuxburyMark P ZwartJ Arjan G M de VisserArjan StegemanEgil A J FischerPublished in: BMC microbiology (2020)
In our meta-analysis, taxonomic relatedness is limiting conjugation in liquid matings, but not in filter matings, suggesting that taxonomic relatedness is not a limiting factor for conjugation in environments where bacteria are fixed in space.