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Irina Starikova

Researcher at University of Tromsø

Publications -  8
Citations -  286

Irina Starikova is an academic researcher from University of Tromsø. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Gene. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 245 citations. Previous affiliations of Irina Starikova include University Hospital of North Norway.

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Fitness costs of various mobile genetic elements in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

TL;DR: Newly acquired MGEs may impose an immediate biological cost in E. faecium, but as demonstrated for vanA plasmids, the initial costs of MGE carriage may be mitigated during growth and beneficial plasmid–host association can rapidly emerge.
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A trade-off between the fitness cost of functional integrases and long-term stability of integrons.

TL;DR: It is concluded that environmental fluctuations and episodic selection is necessary for the maintenance of functional integrases in bacterial populations and a trade-off between the ability to capture gene cassettes and long-term stability of integrons is suggested.
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Low biological cost of carbapenemase-encoding plasmids following transfer from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Escherichia coli.

TL;DR: The low to modest fitness cost of newly acquired and stably maintained carbapenemase-encoding plasmids in E. coli indicates a potential for establishment and further dissemination into other Enterobacteriaceae species and shows that the fitness cost is both plasmid and host specific.
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Sexual isolation in Acinetobacter baylyi is locus-specific and varies 10,000-fold over the genome.

TL;DR: These studies suggest that single-locus-based studies, and inference of transfer frequencies from general estimates of genomic sequence divergence, is insufficient to predict the recombination potential of chromosomal DNA fragments between more divergent genomes.