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A schematic of how the bacterial phenotypes altered by plasmid acquisition could affect plasmid fitness (created in BioRender.com). We distinguish phenotypic effects according to their likely effects on the modes of plasmid inheritance, vertical from mother cell to daughter cell by replication, or horizontal from cell to cell by conjugation.
