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When to be temperate: on the fitness benefits of lysis vs. lysogeny

Bacterial viruses, that is ‘bacteriophage’ or ‘phage’, can infect and lyse their bacterial hosts, releasing new viral progeny. In addition to the lytic pathway, certain bacteriophage (i.e. ‘temperate’ bacteriophage) can also initiate lysogeny, a latent mode of infection in which the viral genome is...

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Autores principales: Li, Guanlin, Cortez, Michael H, Dushoff, Jonathan, Weitz, Joshua S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36204422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaa042