Higher phage virulence accelerates the evolution of host resistance
C. C. Wendling, J. Lange, H. Liesegang, M. Sieber, A. Poehlein, B. Bunk, J. Reikov, H. Goehlich, O. Roth, M. Brockhurst
The paper experiments with phage virulence and shows that higher virulence accelerates host resistance evolution, leading to faster phage extinction.
bioRxiv · Mar 26, 2021Evolutionary Biology