Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Long-term genomic coevolution of host-parasite interaction in the natural environment

  • Elina Laanto,
  • Ville Hoikkala,
  • Janne Ravantti,
  • Lotta-Riina Sundberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00158-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Arms races between phage and bacteria are well known from lab experiments, but insight from field systems is limited. Here, the authors show changes in the resistance and CRISPR loci of bacteria and the infectivity, host range and genome size of phage over multiple years in an aquaculture environment.