Community post

Michael Blazanin and Paul Turner (Yale University) published a preprint in EcoEvoRxiv on the role of community context in shaping bacteria-phage ecology and evolution. They synthesized the emerging body of bacteria-phage experiments in medium-complexity communities, and found that community context (the presence of other bacterial species) sometimes has zero effect on phage-host evolution, and other times constrains phage-host coevolutionary dynamics. They highlight that this area is full of unanswered questions ready for further investigations.