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Aaron Smith

University of CambridgeORCID 0009-0002-0602-396XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Approach:simulation· 1

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Live and let die: lysis time variability and resource limitation shape lytic bacteriophage fitness

Aaron Smith, Michael Hunter, Somenath Bakshi, Diana Fusco

This paper uses agent-based simulations to show that lysis time variability in bacteriophages can provide a fitness advantage in competition, even when reducing growth rate in isolation.

PLoS Computational Biology · Mar 16, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology