Bacteriophages playing nice: Lysogenic bacteriophage replication stable in the human gut microbiota
Summary: Bacteriophages, viruses specific to bacteria, coexist with their bacterial hosts with limited diversity fluctuations in the guts of healthy individuals where they replicate mostly via lysogenic replication. This favors ‘piggy-back-the-winner’ over ‘kill-the-winner’ dynamics which are driven...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-02-01
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| Series: | iScience |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223000846 |