Bacterial biodiversity drives the evolution of CRISPR-based phage resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
E. O. Alseth, E. Pursey, A. Lujan, I. McLeod, C. Rollie, E. Westra
This study shows that bacterial biodiversity promotes CRISPR-based phage resistance evolution in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by increasing fitness trade-offs associated with receptor mutation.
bioRxiv · Mar 24, 2019Evolutionary Biology