Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Adaptation to sub-optimal hosts is a driver of viral diversification in the ocean

  • Hagay Enav,
  • Shay Kirzner,
  • Debbie Lindell,
  • Yael Mandel-Gutfreund,
  • Oded Béjà

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07164-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Marine cyanophages infect oceanic cyanobacteria that are important contributors to global primary production. By using an experimental evolution approach, here the authors show that adaptation to sub-optimal cyanobacterial hosts result in genomic diversification of cyanophage populations.