The phage-host arms race: Shaping the ev
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Adi Stern; Rotem Sorek
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Bacteria, the most abundant organisms on the planet, are outnumbered by a factor of 10 to 1 by phages that infect them. Faced with the rapid evolution and turnover of phage particles, bacteria have evolved various mechanisms to evade phage infection and killing, leading to an evolutiona