Hypothesis: a Plastically Produced Phenotype Predicts Host Specialization and Can Precede Subsequent Mutations in Bacteriophage

ABSTRACT The role of phenotypic plasticity in the evolution of new traits is controversial due to a lack of direct evidence. Phage host range becomes plastic in the presence of restriction-modification (R-M) systems in their hosts. I modeled the evolution of phage host range in the presence of R-M s...

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Main Author: Colin S. Maxwell
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/5304ec6087274e229899527063f48054
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