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Alternating lysis and lysogeny is a winning strategy in bacteriophages due to Parrondo's paradox

Temperate bacteriophages lyse or lysogenize host cells depending on various parameters of infection, a key one being the ratio of the number of free viruses to the number of host cells. However, the effect of different propensities of phages for lysis and lysogeny on phage fitness remains an open pr...

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Autores principales: Cheong, Kang Hao, Wen, Tao, Benler, Sean, Koh, Jin Ming, Koonin, Eugene V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9060511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35316140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115145119