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This project explores how interactions with protozoan predators and phages influence the evolution of bacterial virulence in Pseudomonas fluorescens. It aims to experimentally determine how these enemies affect bacterial traits and their implications for host interactions.
Bacterial virulence has been traditionally thought to co-evolve in reciprocal selection with its host organism.
However, in nature pathogens are embedded within a web of interactions which could indirectly affect evolution of bacterial virulence.
Recent findings suggest that protozoan predation could increase pathogen virulence because bacterial defensive adaptations can correlate positively with bacterial ability to harm hosts.
Yet, protozoan predation could also decrease bacterial virulence if…
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United Kingdom, Oxford
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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