Video 1. Gene-sharing ‘nucleation events’ and long-term coexistence with harmful SGEs.

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For the IBM-model, this Video shows how gene-sharing of rescuable genes emerges through a ‘nucleation’-event, allowing local communities to eventually overgrow all other cells. The top-left panel shows carriers/non-carriers, the top-right shows the evolved HGT-rate (i.e. DNA uptake), the bottom-left shows the barcodes of influxed genes, and the bottom-right shows the barcodes of influxed SGEs.