Temperate bacteriophages lyse or lysogenize host cells depending on various parameters
of infection, a key one being the ratio of the number of free viruses to the number of host …

Pick up an introductory biology textbook that describes bacteriophages. The presented
phage life cycle, often using phage λ as an example, will typically be differentiated into two …

Lysogens are bacterial cells that have survived after genomically incorporating the DNA of
temperate bacteriophages infecting them. If an infection results in lysogeny, the lysogen …

It is generally thought that the adsorption rate of a bacteriophage correlates positively with
fitness, but this view neglects that most phages rely only on exponentially growing bacteria …

Bacteriophages are the most abundant organisms on the planet and both lytic and
temperate phages play key roles as shapers of ecosystems and drivers of bacterial …

Upon infection of their bacterial hosts temperate phages must chose between lysogenic and
lytic developmental strategies. Here we apply the game-theoretic bet-hedging strategy …

Recently, a small-molecule communication mechanism was discovered in a range of
Bacillus-infecting bacteriophages, which these temperate phages use to inform their lysis …

The defining lifestyle of most bacteriophages, analogous to the behavior of higher viruses, is
one in which infection is followed by rampant viral replication and the release of numerous …

Bacteriophage are ubiquitous in nature, yet many central aspects of host–phage biology
have not been integrated into mathematical models. We propose a novel model of host …

The effect of lysis timing on bacteriophage (phage) fitness has received little theoretical or
experimental attention. Previously, the impact of lysis timing on phage fitness was studied …