An experiment that simulates rainfall events in dry soils reveals that virus members of the soil microbiome maintain the turnover of prokaryotic host communities through a ‘cull-the-winner’ model.
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Kosmopoulos, J.C., Anantharaman, K. To cull or kill. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1752–1753 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02210-w
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