Emergence of microbial host dormancy during a persistent virus epidemic.

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We study a minimal stochastic individual-based model for a microbial population challenged by a persistent (lytic) virus epidemic. We focus on the situation in which the resident microbial host population and the virus population are in stable coexistence upon arrival of a single new "mutant" host individual. We assume that this mutant is capable of switching to a reversible state of dormancy upon contact with...

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