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Host infection selects for sRNA variants that drive bacterial social cheating
Quentin Dubois, Typhaine Brual, Marcel Sprenger…·Erwan Gueguen
The paper shows that single-nucleotide mutations in the sRNA ArcZ of Dickeya solani generate social cheater variants during potato infection, which exploit a shared metabolic benefit without contributing to it.
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