Cooperation and life history evolution help obligate parasites to circumvent host genetic deficiencies.
- Bailey ZM Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland.
- Wendling C Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland.
- 2020-03-22
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- Evolution; international journal of organic evolution. - 2020
Animals
Bacteriophage lambda
Escherichia coli
Gene Regulatory Networks
Host-Parasite Interactions
Life History Traits
Parasites
Symbiosis
English
How do obligate parasites cope with hosts that lack genetic elements required for parasite replication? Gupta et. al. (2020) illustrate an experimental evolution system where lambda bacteriophages circumvent a defective gene network in their E. coli host (which initially made it impossible for them to replicate) through both intracellular cooperation and evolutionary changes in phage life-history traits.
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- DOI 10.1111/evo.13963
- PMID 32198751
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