Thinking like a phage : the genius of the viruses that infect bacteria and archaea

AUTHOR :  Youle, Merry

CALL NO :  QW161 Y67t 2017

IMPRINT :   San Diego, Calif. : Wholon, c2017

It isn’t easy to be a phage. First, what is a phage? A phage is a virus that infects Bacteria. To succeed, a phage must encounter, recognize, and enter a particular type of bacterial cell, then coerce it to make more phages rather than more cells. Of course, the cell resists this hostile takeover in numerous ways, all of which the successful phage overcomes. The triumphant phage then proceeds with its replicative business. In this engaging book, Merry Youle relates some of the tactics used by 21 pheatured phages to outwit their host and successfully maintain their own lineage generation after generation.

Source :         https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Like-Phage-Viruses-Bacteria/dp/0990494314