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Genetic basis of infectivity evolution in a bacteriophage.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2011
Scanlan Pauline D, Hall Alex R, Lopez-Pascua Laura D C, Buckling Angus
Abstract excerpt
Antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites is probably ubiquitous. However, very little is known of the genetic changes associated with parasite infectivity evolution during adaptation to a coevolving host. We followed the phenotypic and genetic changes in a lytic virus population (bacteriophage; phage Φ2) that coevolved with its bacterial host, Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25. First, we show the rapid...
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