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An Optimal Lysis Time Maximizes Bacteriophage Fitness In Quasi-Continuous Culture, Sherin Kannoly, Abhyudai Singh, John J. Dennehy
An Optimal Lysis Time Maximizes Bacteriophage Fitness In Quasi-Continuous Culture, Sherin Kannoly, Abhyudai Singh, John J. Dennehy
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Optimality models have a checkered history in evolutionary biology. While optimality models have been successful in providing valuable insight into the evolution of a wide variety of biological traits, a common objection is that optimality models are overly simplistic and ignore organismal genetics. We revisit evolutionary optimization in the context of a major bacteriophage life history trait, lysis time. Lysis time refers to the period spanning phage infection of a host cell and its lysis, whereupon phage progenies are released. Lysis time, therefore, directly determines phage fecundity assuming progeny assembly does not exhaust host resources prior to lysis. Noting that …