Excited to share our grad student Akash Arani’s (co-first author) recent paper in the ISME Journal! Along with collaborators at @ua.es, we show how episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial recovery and promotes virus–host coexistence in hypersaline environments.
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Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus–bacterial coexistence
Abstract. Viruses are ubiquitous in aquatic environments with total densities of virus-like particles often exceeding 107/ml in surface marine oligotrophic
