Article
Selection on plastic adherence leads to hyper-multicellular strains and incidental virulence in the budding yeast.
eLife - 2 Nov 2023
Ekdahl Luke I, Salcedo Juliana A, Dungan Matthew M, Mason Despina V, Myagmarsuren Dulguun, Murphy Helen A
Abstract excerpt
Many disease-causing microbes are not obligate pathogens; rather, they are environmental microbes taking advantage of an ecological opportunity. The existence of microbes whose life cycle does not require a host and are not normally pathogenic, yet are well-suited to host exploitation, is an evolutionary puzzle. One hypothesis posits that selection in the environment may favor traits that incidentally lead to...
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