Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Higher phage virulence accelerates the evolution of host resistance
C. C. Wendling, J. Lange, H. Liesegang…·M. Brockhurst
The paper experiments with phage virulence and shows that higher virulence accelerates host resistance evolution, leading to faster phage extinction.
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2022.1070