SINGLE ENTITY. “Important to note is that in many cases the interests of the bacterium and an already resident prophage become completely aligned upon obligately lytic phage infection (i.e. infection by phages that do not insert into the bacterial genome, but kill the bacterium instantly), such that they can be regarded as one genetic entity.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022