A weaponized phage suppresses competitors in historical and modern metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria.
Talia BackmanSergio M LatorreEfthymia SymeonidiArtur MuszyńskiElla BleakLauren EadsPaulina I Martinez-KourySarita SomAubrey HawksAndrew D GlossDavid M BelnapAllison M ManuelAdam M DeutschbauerJoy BergelsonParastoo AzadiHernán A BurbanoTalia L KarasovPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2024)
Bacterial pathogens in a host-associated metapopulation use a repurposed prophage to kill their competitors.