Interesting bioRxiv by @mcastd.bsky.social and Angus Buckling ... three pairs of coexisting soil bacteria ... evolve with three species-specific bacteriophages over eight weeks of experimental evolution, both as host-parasite pairs in isolation and as a mixed community."👇

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Bacteriophage resistance increases bacterial productivity by shifting population growth dynamics in the soil bacterium Variovorax sp. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.07.583923v1

Bacteriophage resistance increases bacterial productivity by shifting population growth dynamics in the soil bacterium Variovorax sp. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.07.583923v1

Bacteriophages can be important drivers of bacterial densities, and therefore microbial community co

I am obsessed with the division-of-labour-through-mutations as observed in Streptomyces coelicolor. Here, Luis shows that the “worker” mutants are found primarily in the colony center, not at the periphery as predicted by allele surfing. What’s going on? Stay tuned for more models and experiments!

Factors that influence the caste ratio in a bacterial division of labour

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Here now :) It was a lot of fun (and hard thinking)