MicrobiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesPeer-reviewed
My host's enemy is my enemy: plasmids carrying CRISPR-Cas as a defence against phages
Berit Siedentop, Dario Rüegg, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Hélène Chabas
The paper develops a stochastic model to evaluate CRISPR-Cas plasmid-based anti-phage protection, showing it is robust except under specific parameter conditions where segregation loss enables phage outbreaks.
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