Coevolution with phages does not influence the evolution of bacterial mutation rates in soil.

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Coevolution with phages drive the evolution of high bacterial mutation rates in vitro, but the relevance of this finding to natural populations is unclear. Here, we investigated how coevolution affects mutation rate evolution in soil, in the presence and absence of the rest of the natural microbial community. Although mutation rate on average increased threefold, neither coevolving phages nor the rest of natural...

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