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Phage Chemical "Crosstalk" Can Backfire, Steering Responders Into Lysogeny
Phages have been known to trade chemical messages to guide their life‑cycle decisions, but new research shows that some of those messages function more like Trojan horses than helpful signals. By releasing peptides (arbitrium) cues, one phage can mislead another into choosing dormancy at a moment when lysis would normally be favored—a strategic manipulation that shifts the competitive balance between viruses sharing the same bacterial host. Bact…
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Phage Chemical "Crosstalk" Can Backfire, Steering Responders Into Lysogeny
Phages have been known to trade chemical messages to guide their life‑cycle decisions, but new research shows that some of those messages function more like Trojan horses than helpful signals. By releasing peptides (arbitrium) cues, one phage can mislead another into choosing dormancy at a moment when lysis would normally be favored—a strategic manipulation that shifts the competitive balance between viruses sharing the same bacterial host. Bact…
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