TY - JOUR
T1 - The elusive object of desire-Interactions of bacteriophages and their hosts
AU - Nechaev, Sergei
AU - Severinov, Konstantin
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank E.P. Geiduschek for valuable advice. This article was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the US National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and an NIH RO1 grant GM59295, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and Russian Academy of Sciences Presidium “Molecular and Cellular Biology” Program grants to KS.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - Bacteria and their viruses (phages) are locked in an evolutionary contest, with each side producing constantly changing mechanisms of attack and defense that are aimed to increase the odds of survival. As a result, phages play central roles in a great variety of genetic processes and increase the rate of evolutionary change of the bacterial host, which could ultimately work to the benefit of the host in a long run.
AB - Bacteria and their viruses (phages) are locked in an evolutionary contest, with each side producing constantly changing mechanisms of attack and defense that are aimed to increase the odds of survival. As a result, phages play central roles in a great variety of genetic processes and increase the rate of evolutionary change of the bacterial host, which could ultimately work to the benefit of the host in a long run.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mib.2008.02.009
DO - 10.1016/j.mib.2008.02.009
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18400552
AN - SCOPUS:42049098196
SN - 1369-5274
VL - 11
SP - 186
EP - 193
JO - Current Opinion in Microbiology
JF - Current Opinion in Microbiology
IS - 2
ER -