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View article: Persistent trade-offs balance competition and colonization across centuries
Persistent trade-offs balance competition and colonization across centuries Open
Microbial competition drives rapid adaptation, often forcing organisms to specialize in new ecological niches. Adaptations that improve competitive ability can reduce performance in other environments creating trade-offs. Whether such trad…
View article: A phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors in metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria
A phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors in metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria Open
Bacteria can repurpose their own bacteriophage viruses (phage) to kill competing bacteria. Phage-derived elements are frequently strain specific in their killing activity, although there is limited evidence that this specificity drives bac…
View article: A weaponized phage suppresses competitors in historical and modern metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria
A weaponized phage suppresses competitors in historical and modern metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria Open
Bacteriophages, the viruses of bacteria, are proposed to drive bacterial population dynamics, yet direct evidence of their impact on natural populations is limited. Here we identified viral sequences in a metapopulation of wild plant-assoc…