Prophage Contribution to Bacterial Population Dynamics
Open Access
- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 185 (21) , 6467-6471
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.185.21.6467-6471.2003
Abstract
Cocultures of Salmonella strains carrying or lacking specific prophages undergo swift composition changes as a result of phage-mediated killing of sensitive bacteria and lysogenic conversion of survivors. Thus, spontaneous prophage induction in a few lysogenic cells enhances the competitive fitness of the lysogen population as a whole, setting a selection regime that forces maintenance and spread of viral DNA. This is likely to account for the profusion of prophage sequences in bacterial genomes and may contribute to the evolutionary success of certain phylogenetic lineages.Keywords
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