Cell fate decisions emerge as phages cooperate or compete inside their host
The bacteriophage lambda and its hostEscherichia coli provide a model system to study cell-fate decisions. Here, Trinh et al. develop a four-colour fluorescence system at the single-cell/single-virus/single-viral-DNA level and find phages cooperate during lysogenization and compete during lysis.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-02-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14341 |