🎬 🧫🦠 This amazing time-lapse video shows bacteria-phage coevolution occurring on agar plates over ~6d. Mesmerising visuals, enhanced even more when you read the paper for a glimpse at the underlying evolutionary genetics 😍 #microbiology #journalclub #microbialevolution #phage https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35351-w
Multistep diversification in spatiotemporal bacterial-phage coevolution - Nature Communications
Bacteria and their viruses coexist and coevolve in nature, but maintaining them together in the lab is challenging. Here, a spatially structured environment allowed prolonged coevolution, with bacteria and phage diversifying into multiple ecotypes, uncovering gene mechanisms affecting phage-bacteria interactions.
