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Horizontal gene transfer serves as a hedge against unpredictable competitors. To examine effects of variability in competitor T6SS efficacy on selection on HGT rate, the geometric mean fitness of the recipient genotype was determined across pairs of simulations, in which recipients faced competitors with increasingly high variation in T6SS efficacy (±0, 9.1, 27.2, 36.4, and 45.5% from its own T6SS).
