Immune Loss as a Driver of Coexistence During Host-Phage Coevolution
J. L. Weissman, R. Holmes, R. Barrangou, S. Moineau, W. F. Fagan, B. R. Levin, P. L. Johnson
The paper shows that immune loss in bacteria can lead to stable coexistence with phages, contrasting with fitness tradeoffs, through theoretical and experimental analysis of CRISPR-Cas systems.
bioRxiv · Sep 18, 2017Ecology