Polylysogeny magnifies competitiveness of a bacterial pathogen in vivo

The rise of next generation sequencing is revealing a hidden diversity of temperate phages within the microbial community. While a handful of these phages have been well characterized, for the vast majority, the role of phage carriage, and especially multiple phage carriage, is poorly understood. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Burns, Nicola, James, Chloe E, Harrison, Ellie
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408145/