Here's a review of recent works on #anti-phage systems, regulatory cross-talk between #phage, #bacteria and other mobile genetic elements and #recombination. We make the point that they are best understood together. Regulation and defense are two extremes of strategies to control or destroy the other element. Their evolution is accelerated by recombination (which ironically leads to sharing between antagonistic elements). Free until Christmas (and then elsewhere):
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1g13x_V8xBZCCo