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Repeated outbreaks drive the evolution of bacteriophage communication.

ABSTRACT: Recently, a small-molecule communication mechanism was discovered in a range of Bacillus-infecting bacteriophages, which these temperate phages use to inform their lysis-lysogeny decision. We present a mathematical model of the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of such viral communication and show that a communication strategy in which phages use the lytic cycle early in an outbreak (when susceptible host cells are abundant) but switch to the lysogenic cycle later (when susceptible cells become scarce) is favoured over a bet-hedging strategy in which cells are lysogenised with constant probability. However, such phage communication can evolve only if phage-bacteria populations are regularly perturbed away from their equilibrium state, so that acute outbreaks of phage infections in pools of susceptible cells continue to occur. Our model then predicts the selection of phages that switch infection strategy when half of the available susceptible cells have been infected.

SUBMITTER: Doekes HM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7935489 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Repeated outbreaks drive the evolution of bacteriophage communication.

Doekes Hilje M HM Mulder Glenn A GA Hermsen Rutger R

eLife 20210118

Recently, a small-molecule communication mechanism was discovered in a range of <i>Bacillus</i>-infecting bacteriophages, which these temperate phages use to inform their lysis-lysogeny decision. We present a mathematical model of the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of such viral communication and show that a communication strategy in which phages use the lytic cycle early in an outbreak (when susceptible host cells are abundant) but switch to the lysogenic cycle later (when susceptible cel ...[more]

PMID: 33459590

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