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ANTAGONISTIC COEVOLUTION

CRISPR evolves among the winners

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Coevolutionary warfare between bacteria and phage results in the diversification of anti-phage CRISPR arrays among the most successful bacterial competitors

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Fig. 1: The evolutionary outcome of competing genotypes of Streptococcus thermophilus in the absence or presence of polymorphic phages.

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