Transient eco-evolutionary dynamics early in a phage epidemic have strong and lasting impact on the long-term evolution of bacterial defences

• Bridget Nora Janice Watson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: b.watson3@exeter.ac.uk

  Affiliation ESI, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-8334

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• Elizabeth Pursey,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ESI, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, United Kingdom

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• Sylvain Gandon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvain Gandon, Edze Rients Westra

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), UMR 5175, CNRS-Université de Montpellier-Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier-EPHE, Montpellier, France

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• Edze Rients Westra

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvain Gandon, Edze Rients Westra

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ESI, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, United Kingdom

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