Viruses that infect bacteria and their lifecycles (IMAGE)

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Viruses that infect bacteria and their lifecycles

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Illustration of the competition explored in the paper, between phages with a fixed branching ratio between lysogeny and lysis (green) and phages who adjust this ratio based on environmental information (pink). The latter, when infecting bacteria (blue) release signal molecules (purple), which they can then detect to obtain information about the environment.

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Dahan et al

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