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Reduced fecundity is the cost of cheating in RNA virus phi6.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Nov 2004
Dennehy John J, Turner Paul E
Abstract excerpt
Co-infection by multiple viruses affords opportunities for the evolution of cheating strategies to use intracellular resources. Cheating may be costly, however, when viruses infect cells alone. We previously allowed the RNA bacteriophage phi6 to evolve for 250 generations in replicated environmen...
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