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Defying bacteriophages: Contrasting altruistic with individual-based resistance mechanisms in Escherichia coli

Adaptations by hosts in response to parasitism are generally believed to reduce the susceptibility of the adapted individual. However, recent work on Escherichia coli showed that bacteria can fight deadly phage attacks by committing altruistic suicide upon infection, in order to prevent parasite tra...

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Autores principales: Refardt, Dominik, Kümmerli, Rolf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24255741
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cib.25159