Host diversity slows bacteriophage adaptation by selecting generalists over specialists
Most viruses can infect multiple hosts, yet the selective mechanisms that maintain multi-host generalists over single-host specialists remain an open question. Here we propagate populations of the newly identified bacteriophage øJB01 in coculture with many host genotypes and find that while phage ca...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2021
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