The effect of noisy protein expression on E. coli/phage dynamics

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Summary

It is shown that a heterogeneous bacterial population is significantly more fit compared to a homogeneous population when confronting a phage attack, and a small percentage of cells which are expressing few phage receptors become important because these bacteria persist despite the presence of phage.

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2007-01-01
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Population, Biology, Escherichia coli, Bacterial virus, Bacteria

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