Article
Mutations in filamentous bacteriophages spark eco-evolutionary feedbacks in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The ISME journal - 14 Jan 2026
Houpt Noah S B, Hernandez Catherine A, Turner Paul E
Abstract excerpt
Microbial populations strongly shape their environment, which can re-route adaptation toward organism-generated fitness optima. However, the conditions that promote these eco-evolutionary feedbacks are unclear. Here, we used experimental evolution to test whether high population density, by strengthening niche construction, drives eco-evolutionary feedbacks in the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa)...
Topics
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Mutation
- Inovirus
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Pseudomonas Phages
- Biological Evolution
- Prophages
