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<p>This episode: A virus lurking in a bacterial genome protects its host population from infection with other phages, by killing off infected cells!</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/bacteriofiles/BF469.mp3">Download Episode</a></span> (7.6 MB, 11.0 minutes)<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Show notes:</span><br /> Microbe of the episode: <a href= "https://www.dpvweb.net/dpv/showdpv/?dpvno=301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olive latent ringspot virus</a></p> <div> </div> <div> <div><strong>Takeaways</strong></div> <div> <div> <div>Many bacteriophages just go in and gobble up all their host's resources to make a bunch of new viruses right away. Others play a longer game, splicing into and lurking in the host's genome across multiple generations until conditions are right to multiply more rapidly. It is beneficial to these latter kind when their host is resistant to the fast-killing variety, but how can bacteria be resistant to som...