Tracey Lee Peters

This study shows that phage resistance evolution is driven by ecological factors like competitive interactions and fitness costs, not mutation rates, and depends on phage and host concentrations.

This study shows that Paenibacillus larvae can rapidly evolve resistance to bacteriophages, but resistance often leads to growth defects and reduced virulence in bee larvae.

This study shows that prophages can drive observed host-range expansion in directed evolution experiments, emphasizing the need for sequencing to verify phage origins in phage therapy applications.