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Sustainability of virulence in a phage-bacterial ecosystem.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2010
Heilmann Silja, Sneppen Kim, Krishna Sandeep
Abstract excerpt
Virulent phages and their bacterial hosts represent an unusual sort of predator-prey system where each time a prey is eaten, hundreds of new predators are born. It is puzzling how, despite the apparent effectiveness of the phage predators, they manage to avoid driving their bacterial prey to exti...
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