Bacteria–phage coevolution, the reciprocal evolution between bacterial hosts and the
phages that infect them, is an important driver of ecological and evolutionary processes in …

The finding that total viral abundance is higher than total prokaryotic abundance and that a
significant fraction of the prokaryotic community is infected with phages in aquatic systems …

The evolutionary arms race between phages and bacteria, where bacteria evolve resistance
to phages and phages retaliate with resistance-countering mutations, is a major driving force …

Studying the coevolutionary dynamics between bacteria and the bacteriophage viruses that
infect them is critical to understanding both microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning …

Phages can exploit their bacterial hosts by lytic infection, when many viral particles are
released at cell lysis, or by lysogeny, when phages integrate into the host's genome. We …

Antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites is believed to play a pivotal role in
host and parasite population dynamics, the evolutionary maintenance of sex and the …

Following a sixty-year hiatus in western medicine, bacteriophages (phages) are again being
advocated for treating and preventing bacterial infections. Are attempts to use phages for …

Bacteria evolve by mutation accumulation in laboratory experiments, but tempo and mode of
evolution in natural environments are largely unknown. Here, we study the ubiquitous …

A major goal of community ecology is to link biological processes at lower scales with
community patterns. Microbial communities are especially powerful model systems for …

1. In the last two decades predator–prey models have shown that 'refuges', in which prey
can seek respite from predation, are crucial for the persistence of prey and predator. This …