Carriage of λ Latent Virus Is Costly for Its Bacterial Host due to Frequent Reactivation in Monoxenic Mouse Intestine.
Temperate phages, the bacterial viruses able to enter in a dormant prophage state in bacterial genomes, are present in the majority of bacterial strains for which the genome sequence is available. Although these prophages are generally considered to increase their hosts' fitness by bringing ben...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-02-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4752277?pdf=render |