Adaptation and population dynamics arising from the bacteriophage-host system ΦC31-Streptomyces coelicolor M145

Obligate micro-parasites must enter and compromise a living host cell in order to reproduce. Distinct from symbiosis and commensalism, parasitism results in host mortality or morbidity; the severity of which may be expressed in terms of virulence. Bacteriophage and viruses are ubiquitous in the envi...

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Main Author: Griffiths, Scott Andrew
Published: University of Warwick 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549503