… of other bacterial species competing for the same ecological niche 123 … of phages, because
they adapt more easily to phage … of ecological complexity in their experimental design, recent …

… phages possess varied abilities to infect in certain niches or stages of the host bacterial life
… Our results point to the evolution of niche-specific predation by V. cholerae-specific virulent …

… to escape stressful habitats and colonize new ecological niches. Figure … an ecological
and evolutionary perspective on the adaptation of phages and their interactions with bacterial …

… different niches along gradients in resources or environmental … We ask how the three phage
strategy promote bacterial … phage strategies PtW and PtL were modeled by adapting the …

… In this section we will have a look at the phage’s distribution in various niches. … might
include the frequency-dependent host-specific phage adaptation, correlations between bacterial …

… -phage populations as analogous to bacterial populations … allow the bacterium to rapidly
adapt to shifting environmental … of the environmental factors that drive temperate phage into …

… their bacterial hosts. Our study lays the foundation for future research on directed phage
isolations using specific bacterial host … , enabling their hosts to adapt to environmental stressors. …

… of temperate phages that may kill related bacterial hosts but not … or lytic phages protect
niche-successful bacteria by lysing … diversity, suggesting phages will adapt strategies that do not …

… the role of filamentous phages in community ecology and assembly, particularly microbial
adaptation, … Greater environmental fitness of phage-infected bacterial hosts strengthens our …

… pressures of the environment, such as temperature, desiccation stress, and UV radiation,
are dominant drivers of both the diversity and function of cold-adapted bacterial communities in …