Ecology Shapes Microbial Immune Strategy: Temperature and Oxygen as Determinants of the Incidence of CRISPR Adaptive Immunity
J. L. Weissman, R. Laljani, W. F. Fagan, P. L. F. Johnson
The paper develops a predictive model of CRISPR incidence in bacteria and archaea using phylogenetically-corrected machine learning, revealing ecological drivers like temperature and oxygen levels.
bioRxiv · Oct 12, 2018Microbiology