Cyanophages: Starving the Host to Recruit Resources.
Phytoplankton and the viruses that infect them are locked in an evolutionary arms race, the nature of which is presently being revealed. A new study shows that cyanophage-mediated inhibition of CO2 fixation enables the phages to recruit photosynthetically formed redox and ATP to fulfill their nucleotide and metabolic demand.
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401, Edmond J. Safra Campus - Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: aaron.kaplan@mail.huji.ac.il.
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D001435:Bacteriophages; D005075:Biological Evolution; D010839:Phytoplankton / Q000821:virology*