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Rapid diversification of coevolving marine Synechococcus and a virus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Mar 2012
Marston Marcia F, Pierciey Francis J, Shepard Alicia, Gearin Gary, Qi Ji, Yandava Chandri, Schuster Stephan C, Henn Matthew R, Martiny Jennifer B H
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Marine viruses impose a heavy mortality on their host bacteria, whereas at the same time the degree of viral resistance in marine bacteria appears to be high. Antagonistic coevolution--the reciprocal evolutionary change of interacting species--might reconcile these observations, if it leads to ra...
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