… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… -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. …

… In response to one another, bacteria and phages can (co)evolve adaptations conferring …
species, possibly by limiting available niche space, imposing new selective pressures, or driving …

… phage lysate onto two different bacterial lawns, one of EPEC and the other BL21 (Fig. 3a).
Phage clones isolated from a bacterial … incorporates alleles that have niche-dependent fitness …

… 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 …