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Have you heard about how phages have their own parasites? Here's a great tweet thread by Kim Seed of UC Berkeley explaining two new papers from her lab! The papers focus on understanding V. cholerae phage interactions with PLEs, phage-induceable chromosomal island-like elements, which exploit phages for their own spread. Paper 1 on PLE replication strategies | Paper 2 on phage helicase hijacking by PLEs.