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Communication Among Phages, Bacteria, and Soil Environments

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Biocommunication in Soil Microorganisms

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 23))

Abstract

Organisms have three basic functions: survival, reproduction, and movement. Survival is necessary for reproduction, reproduction increases numbers, and movement at a minimum assures that all of an organism’s “eggs” are not found in the same spatial “basket.” For bacteriophages (phages), these facets can be differentiated into mechanisms that operate within the context of bacterial hosts vs. less so. Survival hence can occur in the infection or virion state; reproduction can be differentiated into that which is more closely linked with normal bacterial metabolism (i.e., prophage replication) vs. that which involves substantial modification of normal bacterial metabolism (i.e., lytic reproduction); and movement can occur as virions or while infecting bacteria. We thus can envisage a dance between phages and bacteria involving survival, reproduction, and movement. During this time, exchange of information can occur, that is, communication. In this chapter, I explore such communication within the context of soils.

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Thank you to Dawn Ferris who commented on the early, soils-specific portion of the chapter and to Kurt Williamson who provided a number of helpful comments on the penultimate version. This work was supported by an Ohio State intramural grant awarded to Jeff LeJeune, Brian McSpadden Gardener, and myself.

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Abedon, S.T. (2011). Communication Among Phages, Bacteria, and Soil Environments. In: Witzany, G. (eds) Biocommunication in Soil Microorganisms. Soil Biology, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14512-4_2

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