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The Significance of Mutualistic Phages for Bacterial Ecology and Evolution.

Trends in microbiology - 1 Jun 2016

Obeng Nancy, Pratama Akbar Adjie, Elsas Jan Dirk van

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Bacteria and phages have traditionally been viewed as 'antagonists'. However, temperate phages can transfer genes, which can broaden their bacterial hosts' metabolic repertoire, confer or enhance virulence, or eliminate competing organisms, and so enhance bacterial fitness. Recent evidence shows that phages can also promote biofilm formation leading to population-level benefits for their bacterial hosts. Here, we...

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PMID: 26826796
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.12.009

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