MULTIPLE PHAGE PARASITES PER HOST. “∼35% of infected cells contained multiple viruses. Here, in the 5492 microbial genomes with detectable viral signal, nearly half (2445) contained more than one detectable virus. Most (∼82%) of these co-infections involved multiple Caudovirales, as previously observed, and likely provides mechanism for viral gene exchange and may be more common in some phages displaying rampant mosaicism.”
https://elifesciences.org/content/4/e08490
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022