Navigated range expansion promotes migratory culling
Y. T. Zhang, Qingjuan Hu, Yingtong Su, Pan Chu, Ting Wei, Xuefei Li, Chenli Liu, Xiongfei Fu
The paper shows that increased bacterial motility during range expansion reduces phage spread by spatially sorting infected and uninfected cells, leading to migratory culling of viruses.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Dec 3, 2024Peer-reviewedSystems Biology