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Independent host- and bacterium-based determinants protect a model symbiosis from phage predation.
Cell reports - 15 Feb 2022
Lynch Jonathan B, Bennett Brittany D, Merrill Bryan D, Ruby Edward G, Hryckowian Andrew J
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophages (phages) are diverse and abundant constituents of microbial communities worldwide, capable of modulating bacterial populations in diverse ways. Here, we describe the phage HNL01, which infects the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri. We use culture-based approaches to demonstrate that mutations in the exopolysaccharide locus of V. fischeri render this bacterium resistant to infection by HNL01,...
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