Bacteriophage-bacteria community ecology

Bacteriophage-bacteria community ecology is the study of the interations between phages and bacteria, especially host bacteria.

Phages can ecologically impact bacteria at different levels and in a number of different ways, varying depending on phage, bacteria, and enviornmental conditions including by...

1. Parasitizing bacteria (also expressed as predation or parasitoidism)
2. Forming mutualisms (bacteria with prophages via lysogenic conversion)
3. Killing related bacterial competitors (lysogen allelopathy but also "carrier state")
4. Selecting especially against numerous, phage-susceptibility types (killing the winner)
   
5. Modifying bacteria-containing environments (ecosystem ecology)
6. Transducing DNA between bacteria

At the moment the community ecology section of the phage ecology entry on Wikipedia is a useful resource so please seeen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_ecology#Phage_community_ecology for more information on this subject.

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_ecology#Phage_community_ecology

Internal hierarchy

1. phage.atwiki.com
2. bacteriophage ecology
3. bacteriophage community ecology
4. bacteriophage-bacteria community ecology