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Kristen LeGault (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing how temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern virus-pathogen conflicts in Vibrio cholerae recovered from clinical samples. They studied Vibrio cholerae phage-host arms race dynamics over time (using clinical samples taken across 3 years!), and learned more about the role of integrative conjugative elements (ICEs) in conferring phage defense and dissemination of antibiotic resistance.