Skip to main content
Log in

ANTAGONISTIC COEVOLUTION

CRISPR evolves among the winners

  • News & Views
  • Published:

From Nature Ecology & Evolution

View current issue Submit your manuscript

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

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

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

References

  1. Keller, M. & Zengler, K. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 2, 141–150 (2004).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Fierer, N. & Jackson, R. B. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 626–631 (2006).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Kraemer, S. A. & Velicer, G. J. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 108(Suppl 2), 10823–10830 (2011).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Sathe, S. et al. Microb. Ecol. 60, 137–148 (2010).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Guillemet, M. et al. Nat. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01841-9 (2022).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Barrangou, R. et al. Science 315, 1709–1712 (2007).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Chabas, H. et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 374, 20180097 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Decaestecker, E. et al. Nature 450, 870–873 (2007).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Levin, B. R. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 319, 459–472 (1988).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Lieberman, T. D. et al. Nat. Genet. 46, 82–87 (2014).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Castledine, M., Sierocinski, P., Padfield, D. & Buckling, A. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 375, 20190252 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Gómez, P., Ashby, B. & Buckling, A. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 282, 20142297 (2015).

    Google Scholar 

  13. Ratzke, C., Denk, J. & Gore, J. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 2, 867–872 (2018).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Chase, A. B., Weihe, C. & Martiny, J. B. H. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 118, e2101254118 (2021).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Dubey, M. et al. Commun. Biol. 4, 492 (2021).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Gude, S. et al. Nature 578, 588–592 (2020).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Saheli Saha or Samay Pande.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Saha, S., Pande, S. CRISPR evolves among the winners. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 1412–1413 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01843-7

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01843-7

  • Springer Nature Limited

Navigation