Drivers and consequences of bacteriophage host range.

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Bacteriophages are obligate parasites of bacteria characterized by the breadth of hosts that they can infect. This "host range" depends on the genotypes and morphologies of the phage and the bacterial host, but also on the environment in which they are interacting. Understanding phage host range is critical to predicting the impacts of these parasites in their natural host communities and their utility as...

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