Alternating lysis and lysogeny is a winning strategy in bacteriophages due to Parrondo's paradox.
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115145119
Abstract: SignificanceBacteriophages, the most widespread reproducing biological entity on Earth, employ two strategies of virus-host interaction: lysis of the host cell and lysogeny whereby the virus genome integrates into the host genome and propagates vertically with… read more here.
Keywords: strategy; lysis; parrondo paradox; alternating lysis ... See more keywords