Polylysogeny magnifies competitiveness of a bacterial pathogen in vivo

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 346-351

  Burns, Nicola ^a   James, Chloe E ^b   Harrison, Ellie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Liverpool epidemic strain; Polylysogeny; Temperate phage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928053119     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12243     Document Type: Article

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