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Phages hijack a host's defence

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The discovery that some viruses use a defence mechanism known as a CRISPR/Cas system beautifully illustrates the evolutionary tit-for-tat between viruses and the bacteria they infect. See Letter p.489

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  1. Manuela Villion and Sylvain Moineau are in the Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bio-informatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada.,

    Manuela Villion & Sylvain Moineau

  2. S.M. is also in the Groupe de recherche en écologie buccale, Faculté de médecine dentaire, and the Félix dďHérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses, Université Laval.,

    Sylvain Moineau

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Villion, M., Moineau, S. Phages hijack a host's defence. Nature 494, 433–434 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/494433a

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